. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. THE PLACE OF THE DOMESTIC ANIMAL IN OUR CIVILIZATION had and still continue to have, an elevating and civilizing influence. Shaler puts it thus : " It is perhaps too much to attribute the advance of the agricultural classes of our civilized peoples, in all that serves to remove them from the brutal- ity of their savage ancestors, altogether to the nature of their work,—to the very large element of kindly care for which it calls, and which is the price of success in the occupation. Yet when we note the immediate way in which
. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. THE PLACE OF THE DOMESTIC ANIMAL IN OUR CIVILIZATION had and still continue to have, an elevating and civilizing influence. Shaler puts it thus : " It is perhaps too much to attribute the advance of the agricultural classes of our civilized peoples, in all that serves to remove them from the brutal- ity of their savage ancestors, altogether to the nature of their work,—to the very large element of kindly care for which it calls, and which is the price of success in the occupation. Yet when we note the immediate way in which the people bred in cities, under circumstances of excitement are wont to behave like savages of the lower kind, showing in their conduct a lack of all sympa- thetic education, and contrast their behavior with that of their kinsmen from the field, we see essential differences in character which cannot well be explained save by the diverse natures of the training which the men have received. Thus, in the French Revolution, the baser, more inhu- man deeds were not committed by the peasants, who had been the principal suf- ferers under the regime which was over- thrown, but by the people of the great towns who had been less oppressed by the iniquities of the old system of govern- ment. " If it be true, as my personal experi- ences and observations lead me firmly to believe is the case, that man's contact with the domesticated animals has been and is ever to be one of the most effective means whereby his sympathetic, his civil- ized motives may be broadened and affirmed, there is clearly reason for giving to this side of life a larger share of attention than it has ; Characters essential to domestication.— Besides having the ability to make effective use of the available food and render this food into products or service useful to man, animals must possess other characters to be domesticated. The most obvious of these characters are readiness with which they b
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