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5. Way of the wild—Among the wild there is little 
sympathy or sentiment. The call of food to meet Na- 
ture’s demands is always uppermost. Only where wild 
animals have been subjugated to domestication and 
raised under environments of a settled husbandry have 
the higher ideals of civilization prevailed. The ways of 
the wild are entirely different from those of civilized men. 
In the wild every other species is an enemy and every 
individual of the same species a rival or competitor. 
Hence, life is one long battle in which strength, cunning, 
instinct and racial characteristics to defend, outwit or 
escape, are weapons of vigtory. 
6. Natural selection—Animals swiftest of foot most 
frequently escape, while the weak or sick are most often 
devoured by the attacking ene- 
mies. The strong and swiftest 
satisfy their hunger by over- 
taking the slowest of the spe- 
cies trying to escape in flight. 
In the feed lot the weakest are 
always crowded aside by the 
strong and vigorous. The wild 
boar, through natural selection, 
becomes more fit for wild boar 
life, the eagle becomes swifter Way oF THE WILD 
and more capable of killing and Eagles endeavoring to capture the 
infant deer. 
tearing his prey, and the wild 
horse fleeter when the dangerous beasts pursue him. 
A species unable to adapt itself to its environment is 
sooner or later crowded out by another species that can 
do so. 
The primitive hog was naturally coarse and ferocious and easily 
angered, because his protection lay in those directions. He needed 
a long limb, because he could the more easily escape when the foe 
