continuation of the life prescribed 

 by nature. With an unquestion- 

 ing certainty, an unconstraint 

 and a simplicity that surprise us 

 a little, deeming us better and 

 more powerful than all that exists, 

 he betrays, for our benefit, the 

 whole of the animal kingdom to 

 which he belongs and, without 

 scruple, denies his race, his kin, 

 his mother and his young. 



But he loves us not only in his 

 consciousness and his intelligence : 

 the very instinct of his race, the en- 

 tire unconsciousness of his species, 



