256 The Under-Water World 



we are at the present time ourselves 

 continually upsetting. 



The query "What of the future?" 

 must therefore remain unanswered, for 

 the last decade has brought home to us 

 with unpleasant clarity the fact that, as 

 far as the higher animals are concerned, 

 the seas and rivers as well as forests 

 and fields are by no means inexhaustible, 

 and that the toll spasmodically levied by 

 Nature in her most destructive mood is 

 trifling compared with the tireless and 

 calculated killing by civilised Man. Even 

 our close relations, the apes, are being 

 exterminated in order to add a few extra 

 years of vigour to the flower of creat 

 homo sapiens. 



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