Affection for Animals, Not for Man 41 



with, but as a rule, if he can always freely see and 

 hear his kind, he has no use for other connection, 

 and the odd relations which exist between himself 

 and various other animals are due to their advances 

 and to his toleration. If this were not true, he would 

 in a wild state herd and graze with other than his 

 kind ; but he never does so if the latter can be found. 

 It is to animals in their wild state that we must 

 turn for natural instincts — not to the domesticated, 

 whose fancies may be diseased. Primitive man 

 hardly cared for cigarettes, cotillions, and cham- 

 pagne — it was only when civilised and domesticated 

 that these unnatural tastes developed and overcame 

 him. 



