SEPARATION OF SEXES 95 



selection to the use and handling of these artificial 

 appliances. He kills not only for the purposes 

 above mentioned which move other creatures 

 thereto, but he kills and tortures for pastime, for 

 amusement, for practice in the skill and art of kill- 

 ing and maiming, and for the fun of competing with 

 others practicing the same art and skill. All this 

 practicing cultivates his passion for such activities, 

 and that passion must be fed by more practice, and 

 so it grows and increases. " It's a grandly beautiful 

 day, full of life and joy, let's go and kill something " 

 — is a distinctively human sentiment, which has 

 been too exclusively ascribed to the English nation. 

 And how innumerable are the applications and 

 extensions of this love for killing, maiming, and tor- 

 turing. Alan kills to exterminate pests; to stop 

 interference with his claim of supreme control of 

 the earth and of its resources, and of the application 

 of all that lives and grows on it to his own special 

 purposes, uses, and whims. He kills some creatures 

 for their feathers, others for their hides, others for 

 their furs, still others for their horns, antlers, tails, 

 tusks, jaws, brains, livers, testicles, or even for the 

 oils, fats, and other secretions of various glands, etc. 

 He not only kills, but exterminates whole races and 

 genera. Only the infinitely small have thus far 

 baffled his ingenuity and passion for killing. Man 

 follows these cruel and destructive practices, has 

 the character adapted to them even to-day, after 

 being for at least several thousand years under the 



