From Fox's Earth 



then. The cry of fear and pain seems to reach 

 us across the aeons. These things had been 

 before, but in dimmer and more uncouth forms 

 the Calibans of creation which do not touch our 

 sympathies. 



As in other matters, the past may be re-created 

 out of the present. A few incidents, once 

 common where we stand, are still enacted else- 

 where. In South Africa, for instance, where 

 herds of wary grass-feeders out on the plain are 

 ready to start on the first alarm, while silent 

 carnivores the lion and the leopard prowl 

 round the outskirts, or stalk with a certain deadly 

 skill. This discipline has been at the forming of 

 our tame cattle. It helps to explain a hundred 

 little ways they have got, taken by the dull herd 

 as a matter of course, but really dating back 

 beyond Guelph and Plantagenet. 



We have changed all that. And here the 

 larger outlines of the persecution are seen, the 

 beginning of the policy which has kept on in 

 lesser circles, and whose working is not stayed. 

 The psychology of the movement is also made 

 plain. The motives which are hidden under so 

 many flattering aliases. 



In a sense we are carnivores, though, con- 

 veniently for ourselves, we combine the tastes of 

 both. In this we brook no rival, nor are we 

 delicate in our methods of getting rid of those 

 which exist. Our nomenclature here also is 



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