RELATION OF ANIMALS TO MAN 29 
10. Animals as civilizing agents—Animals serve an- 
other purpose besides advancing the material welfare of 
the human race. They have not been less important to 
our spiritual welfare. \Whether kept merely as pets and 
FLESH FROM GRASS 
Sheep being loaded in cars for shipment to market centers. They have converted 
a very large amount of grass, weeds and grain into substances that can now be used 
for human food. 
companions, or for the production of work, clothing and 
food, they compel habits of care and responsibility and 
inculcate habits of mercy. These habits, together with 
the sympathetic influences involved, in all ages have had 
and still continue to have, an elevating and civilizing 
influence upon the human race. é 
“Tf it be true, as my personal experiences and observations lead 
me firmly to believe is the case, that man’s contact with the domes- 
ticated animals is ever to be one of the most effective means 
whereby his sympathetic, his civilized motives may be broadened and 
affirmed, there is clearly reason for giving to this side of life a 
larger share of attention than it has received.”—Shaler. 
