Relations of Men to Insect World.--But Few Species Useful to Man.--Little Trace of Domestication.--Honey-bees: their Origin; Reasons for no Selective Work; Habits of the Species.--Silkworms: Singular Importance to Man.--Intelligence of Species.--Cochineal Insect.--Spanish Flies.--Future of Man relative to Useful Insects, 190 THE RIGHTS OF ANIMALS Recent Understanding as to the Rights of Animals; Nature of these Rights; their Origin in Sympathy.--Early State of Sympathetic Emotions.--Place of Statutes concerning Animal Rights.--Present and Future of Animal Rights.--Question of Vivisection.--Rights of Domesticated Animals to Proper Care; to Enjoyment.--Ends of the Breeder's Art.--Moral Position of the Hunter.--Probable Development of the Protecting Motive as applied to Animals, 204 THE PROBLEM OF DOMESTICATION The Conditions of Domestication; Effects on Society; Share of the Races of Men in the Work.--Evils of Non-Intercourse with Domesticated Animals as in Cities; Remedies.--Scientific Position of Domestication; Future of the Art.--List of Species which may Advantageously be Domesticated.--Peculiar Value of the Birds and Mammals.--Importance of Groups which tenant High Latitudes.--Plan for Wilderness Reservations; Relation to National Parks.--Project for International System of Reservations.--Nature of Organic Provinces; Harm done to them by Civilized Men.--Way in which Reservations would Serve to Maintain Types of the Life of the Earth; how they may be Founded.--Summary and Conclusions, 218 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS AFRICAN ELEPHANT, _Frontispiece_ SHEEP-DOGS GUARDING A FLOCK AT NIGHT, 10 HOUNDS RUNNING A WILD BOAR, 53 ON ROTTEN ROW, HYDE PARK, LONDON, 63 CAVALRY HORSE, 71 A HURDLE JUMPER, 79 ENGLISH POLO PONIES, 89 WINNOWING GRAIN IN EGYPT, 111 THE HALT IN THE DESERT AT NIGHT--THE STORY TELLER, 121 CARRYING THE SUGAR CANE IN HARVEST--EGYPT, 125 FEEDING SILKWORMS WITH MULBERRY LEAVES IN JAPAN, 193 THE FARMER'S APIARY, 199 ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT GREYHOUND AFTER "THE KILL," 13 ST. BERNARD, 15 SPANIEL RETRIEVING WILD DUCK, 17 BULL-DOG, 22 FOX-HOUND AND PUPS, 25