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deplores the efforts made to dam such wild areas, and appeals for their 
preservation. 
In his article “What Men? What Needs?,” Krutch wrote: 
“I do not like to think that something I have loved may cease to be. 
even when I am no longer here to take my joy of it. Perhaps no radica. 
and permanent solution of the problem is possible. The world grows moré 
crowded year by year, and at an ever-increasing rate. Men push farthei 
and farther in their search for ‘resources’ to be exploited, even for more 
mere space to occupy. Increasingly, they tend to think of the terrestria 
globe as THEIR earth. They never doubt their right to deal with it a; 
they think fit—and what they think fit usually involves the destructior 
of what nature has thought fit during many millions of years. 
“Only the United States among highly developed nations can stil 
offer its citizens the opportunity to visit large regions where nature stil 
dominates the scene. And that is because only the United States began a 
a sufficiently early stage of its development to set aside as public land: 
some of the most attractive of such regions. 
“We had national parks before England had established so much a 
one small nature reserve. Insofar as this is true, it suggests hope. Wi 
have not been merely blind to what we have, nor to the dange 
of losing it.” 
Our tragedy (it appears to this reviewer) lies in the too great faith wi 
place in our bureaucratic structure to protect park and forest areas, onc 
they are saved. Democracy works best where the people are alert. 
The introduction to the book is one of its best parts. There, Mr. Krutc! 
examines the religious ethic of the western world—that harsh doctrin 
vhich claims that animals were made for the benefit of mankind, ani 
therefore have no rights. Krutch discusses the opinions of St. Thomas ¢ 
Aquinas, the English writer John Ray, and the French philosopher Descartes 
Laws regulating the treatment of animals are of fairly recent origin. Som 
countries do not have them, and our several states are uneven in thei 
protection of certain species. 
Mr. Krutch in most of the balance of these selections, was a watche 
of moths, frogs, bats, flowers, weeds and birds. He was a careful observe 
of the seasons, deeply in love with his desert country. 
—Raymond Moste 
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