If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace even affectionately.
Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat, if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
In studying the traits and dispositions of the so-called lower animals, and contrasting them with man's, I find the result humiliating to me.
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