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THE AFRICAN EXPEDITION AND ITS OBJECTS 
bullet from greater suffering in its after life. So far, however, as 
the man is concerned it has a different significance. To kill for pure 
sport cannot but dull the finer elements of human feeling and develop 
the sentiment of destruction. Yet while there are wild animals there 
will be hunters. The active, adventurous spirit of man leads him 
inevitably in this direction, and Roosevelt, in his hunting expedition, 
aside from the scientific purpose involved, had been yielding to the 
native instinct derived from primeval man and from which few of us 
wholly escape. 
