Nature has never asked man whether he would have serpents, reptiles, noxious weeds, bacillus, scarlet fever germs, yellow fever germs, small-pox germs, carnivorous animals, birds of prey, sharks, whales, sea-serpents, crocodiles, asps, cobras, or anything else which he considers obnoxious. She never consulted him about it but placed his life in the midst of all other teeming lives. Their lives are just as sweet to them as his life is to him. Their lives are just as necessary in the great ocean of life as his is. The animals that man slays and feeds upon, object strongly to being murdered and eaten by him, as he objects strongly to being eaten by some of them. Man objects to being stung by a cobra. The cobra objects to the man's crushing heel and has nothing but a poisonous fang to protect herself with, together with her young. The cobra and the man are antagonistic, that is all. Mother Nature sees to it that her most helpless ones shall have some means of defending themselves.
Man talks of wild animals while he goes to war with cannon, shell and gatling-guns, slaying his fellow-men by the thousands. He talks of himself as being the only creature worthy immortality, while he invents the most horrible tortures, such as no animal ever did or could inflict upon him.
Ah! the egotism of it!
From the spirit of Herr Franz
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