Then our fight will begin against invisible animal life, against
the actual microbes of disease which the mosquito has been
carrying around and injecting into us. It is a long fight, but,
of course, we shall win it. ----
And is it not interesting, also, to reflect that in the moral, as
in the physical, battles of life man requires the longest time to
deal with his smallest enemies?
Morally we are still primitive savages. We are still combating
murder, arson, theft--like the cave-dweller fighting the
physical mammoth, we are fighting the mammoths of moral
deformity.
Eventually they will disappear. Murder will be unknown, and
theft, rendered unnecessary by decent social organization, will
have disappeared also.
At that time we shall be fighting the smaller and more dangerous,
more elusive and more persistent moral troubles--HYPOCRISY,
CONCEIT, UNCHARITABLENESS. These are the mosquitoes and flies
of the world of immorality that will pursue us when the big
fellows--murder and theft--shall have been killed off.
THE MONKEY AND THE SNAKE FIGHT
We wish to tell you of the monkey and the snake fight, described
by a witness in the Lahore Tribune. ----
Before men arrived on earth, when all the animals were racing for
supremacy, the monkey seemed to have the smallest chance.
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