Nature spills it out with a lavish hand.

Where there is room for one life, she sows a thousand lives, and it's life eats life till the strongest and most piggish life is left." "You have read Darwin," I said.

"But you read him misunderstandingly when you conclude that the struggle for existence sanctions your wanton destruction of life." He shrugged his shoulders.

"You know you only mean that in relation to human life, for of the flesh and the fowl and the fish you destroy as much as I or any other man.

And human life is in no wise different, though you feel it is and think that you reason why it is.