New Walks in Old Ways 



an ox, the cunning of a serpent; the 

 timidity of a rabbit, the courage of a 

 lion. He breakfasts with the birds 

 upon seeds and berries, and banquets 

 with the beasts upon flesh, fish and 

 fowl. All is grist that comes to man's 

 mill. Lord over all, he appropriates 

 for himself the fruits of his own and 

 of all other labor, and stands forth, 

 with all his faults and virtues, at once 

 the best and the worst of all created 

 things. 



Wonderful as has been man's work 

 in subduing and bending animal and 

 vegetable life to suit his own ideas, 

 strangely enough he has paid com- 

 paratively little attention to the im- 

 provement of his own species. The 

 percentage of good specimens of the 

 race in the human family, from the 

 physical standpoint, is lower than 

 among any other class of animals. If 

 you could strip a thousand men, women 

 and children, and line them up for 

 examination and comparison with a 



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