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for the poor bulls have no chance whatever to 

 escape or to fight back. It is simply slow 

 butchery, an exhibition of unmitigated cowardice 

 and cruelty. And yet, although the Spanish people 

 are the most religious people of Europe, 95 per 

 cent, of the population approve this atrocious 

 barbarism — not only approve it, but demand that 

 the King shall appear in the royal box at every 

 bull-fight, or have his throne upset.' 



The notorious *Juke' family of criminals, 

 who sprang from a single ruffian who lived 

 in 1720, has cost the State of New York 

 millions of dollars in money and incalculable 

 misery and crime. But the initial savage progeni- 

 tors of the human species have stocked the earth 

 with the most stupendous array of wrong-doers 

 — knaves, felons, kings, warriors, barbarians, 

 butchers, brutalitarians, kleptomaniacs, and thugs 

 — that has ever (let us hope) brought damnation 

 to a world. 



VIII. Universal Ethics. 



There are the same reasons for the recognition 

 by human beings of ethical relations to non-human 

 beings as there are for the recognition by human 

 beings of ethical relations among themselves 

 Analyse the reasons for being considerate toward 

 men, any variety of men, and you will find the sam?; 

 reasons to exist for beii;g considerate toward all 

 men. And analyse the reasons for being altruistic 

 toward men — for being kind and sympathetic 

 toward them — and you will find the same reasons 



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