because the people of
that period had so much of the Devil,
or cruder element, in them as to insist
that the universe should not continually
show and prove higher and higher expressions
of the higher mind for man's comfort and
pleasure.
MUSEUM
AND MENAGERIE
HORRORS
A MENAGERIE of beasts
and birds means a collection of captured
walking and flying creatures, taken from
their natural modes of life, deprived
permanently of such modes, and suffering
more or less in consequence. The bird,
used to the freedom of forest and air
is imprisoned in the most limited quarters.
Its plumage there is never as fresh and
glossy as in its natural state. It does
not live as long. The captive life of
the many species brought from the tropics
is very short, especially of the smaller
and more delicate species.
Bears, lions, tigers,
deer, wolves and all other animals like
liberty and freedom of range as well as
man. In the menagerie they are deprived
of it. The air they breathe is often fetid
and impure. To the burrowing animal, earth
is as much a necessity and comfort as
a comfortable bed is to us. The captured
burrower is often kept on a hard board
floor, which, in its restless misery to
get into its native earth, it scratches
and wears away in cavities inches in depth.
Monkeys by the thousand
die prematurely of
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