death alone establishes cruel rela- 

 tions of cause and effect between 

 neighbouring lives, where not the 

 smallest sympathy has ever made 

 a conscious leap from one species 

 to another, one animal alone, 

 among all that breathes upon the 

 earth, has succeeded in breaking 

 through the prophetic circle, in 

 escaping from itself to come 

 bounding toward us, definitely to 

 cross the enormous zone of dark- 

 ness, ice and silence that isolates 

 each category of existence in 

 nature's unintelligible plan. This 



