Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a complete transformation when torn from their soil in field and forest.
John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Yet, how can any one speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed? The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson to the visionless dabbler in science, presumes to speak authoritatively of human nature. “But what about human nature? Can it be changed? And if not, will it endure under Anarchism?
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