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Show "ANIMAL" There is a time in the life of a child when it ii fascinated by animals. ani-mals. A (h: or a kitten is "adorable' and in the absence of some-! some-! thing better even a lifeless te.i.h bear is clasped to the breast and trued. The animals know bo much, and they do such tfonderful things Duo listens breathless in 1 HrVr Rabbit " or "Reynard the Fox" or The Jungle Book." And then the big beasts arc bo strong and Ci ai ' leas. What 'nil In- hhht hnw and splcndnl than n bull, a lion or an eagle? ! Soiuetim.'s men d not gel beyond this childish way ol feeling Egyptians worshipped i ats . Israel demanded its gulden calfj and in Indiu toda tin- sa.-u'd bull wanders where it will and does what it i .lenses In America ihe Indiana had their Totems animals from v hich m'n claim to be descended and t. which they pay great honor, ind ihe Indian stories tell how annuals brought fin and other good kings to man. Amongst Anglo-Saxon peoples the eagle r the lion . s a national symbol and man men are honored by being called an Klk or a Moose. : All this shows bow cloee man likes to feel himself to the brutea Rut civilized man reaents the kinship. He speaks with horror of "an inimal fare " T 1 conceals In- body and sometimes he will not even :;,t in public; be teaches ids children to be ashamed of animal tunc- ! Man has nothing to gain by denying or resenting the facts. Ani- V pal he i S and annual In must remain. The trouble with an "unimal a(., is not the mouth that it contains but the fine lines that it lacks. ! It shows instincl without consideration and intelligence. Man s problem is no t escape hisnature, but to glorify it. not h, i,e ascetc, but to be decent; to fee his kinship with all the world f living things. bu1 tp rise above his brothers, the hrutes. by manag- , p g Ids life with more foresight and delieaf-v |