WILD ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY 
wounded by the bear now in the British Museum. Again, 
the rapid death of animals wounded by poisonous serpents 
makes their suffering but of short duration. 
I trust, however, it may not be supposed that I am 
endeavouring to make it appear that all nature exists free 
from cruel torture and frightful suffering from pain and 
misery, this state of things being wholly inseparable from 
life. All living creatures have been and always must be 
subject to casualties that from time to time occur to injure 
or destroy life. Sometimes it is fire or water, or the want 
of these necessaries, or by the changed condition of the 
atmosphere or other disturbance of the elements producing 
disease, and sometimes by want of food and loss of life. 
Added to these we find throughout the world a spirit 
of destruction inherent not only in the lower animals, 
but inseparable from the highest state of civilization. 
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