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depend on fashion. Mere fashion has been the 

 cause of the practical extermination of species 

 of birds ; but public opinion is finally aroused to 

 check it. The demand for furs is leading to 

 similar results. Many species of animals perish 

 before the continued progress of civilization, 

 by means of which the native haunts are de- 

 stroyed. We must protect that which we need 

 to grow for our own use. It is inevitable that 

 the animal creation, as a whole, shall recede 

 as the earth is subdued to man. But too often 

 this creation has fallen long before its time 

 fallen as a result of unnecessary killing, and of 

 a desire of bloodthirstiness that is unworthy 

 of us. 



The foregoing remarks are meant to illus- 

 trate what I think to be an enlarging vision of 

 our own place in the world. The point of view 

 is shifting. The spiritual factors have increas- 

 ingly more influence in shaping the course of 

 our evolution. In time we shall probably be 

 released entirely from the necessity of taking 

 animal life to supply us with food. This will 

 come as a result of our enlarging spiritual out- 



