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We know the pig's object in life. It has been beautifully and
permanently outlined in Carlyle's "pig catechism." The pig's life
object is to get fat and keep fat--to get his full share of swill
and as much more as he can manage to secure. And his life object
is worthy. By sticking at it he develops fat hams inside his
bristles, and WE know, though he does not, that the production of
fat hams is his destiny. ----
But our human destiny is NOT to produce fat hams. Why do so many
of us live earnestly on the pig basis? Why do we struggle
savagely for money to buy our kind of swill--luxury, food, etc.
--and cease all struggling when that money is obtained?
Is fear of poverty and dependence the only emotion that should
move us?
Are we here merely to STAY here and EAT here?
A great German scientist, very learned and about as imaginative
as a wart hog, declares that the human face is merely an
extension and elaboration of the alimentary canal--that the
beauty of expression, the marvellous qualities of a noble human
face, are merely indirect results of the alimentary canal's
strivings to satisfy its wants.
That is a hideous conception, is it not? But it is no more
unworthy than the average human life, and the average existence
has much to justify the German's speculations.
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