The lesson of the past six years is this. It is useless to hope that warfare, which is but one of many savage survivals, can be abolished, until the mind of man is humanized in other respects also--until _all_ savage survivals are at least seen in their true light. As long as man kills the lower races for food or sport, he will be ready to kill his own race for enmity. It is not _this_ bloodshed, or _that_ bloodshed, that must cease, but _all_ needless bloodshed--all wanton infliction of pain or death upon our fellow-beings. Only when the great sense of the universal kinship has been realized among us, will love cast out hatred, and will it become impossible for the world to witness anew the senseless horrors that disgrace Europe to-day. Humanitarians, then, must expect little, but claim much; must know that they will see no present fruits of their labours, but that their labours are nevertheless of far-reaching importance. Let those who have been horrified by the spectacle of an atrocious war resolve to support the peace movement more strongly than ever; but let them also support the still wider and deeper humanitarian movement of which pacifism is but a part, inasmuch as all humane causes, though seemingly separate, are ultimately and essentially one. POSTSCRIPT In the preparation of this book I have used the substance of several articles that first appeared in the _Humane Review_, _Humanitarian_, _Literary Guide_, _Rationalist Press Association’s Annual_, _Vegetarian Messenger_, or elsewhere. Acknowledgment of certain other obligations is made in the footnotes. INDEX Adams, Francis, 83-85 Adams, George, 87 Adams, Maurice, 76, 77 _Adventurer_, the, 28, 29 Anderson, Martin (“Cynicus”), 204 Anderson, Sir Robert, 143, 144 Animals, kinship with man, 13, 14, 128, 130, 131; deaths of, 130, 234; “dumb,” 129; rights of, 125-128, 132 Anthropocentric superstition, 13, 127, 128, 131 Arnold, Matthew, 45, 52, 234 Aveling, Edward, 80, 81, 95 Barlas, John, 85-87; quoted, 233 _Beagler Boy_, the, 175, 176 Bell, Ernest, 124, 125, 211 Besant, Sir Walter, 115, 116 Big Game Hunting, 155, 156 “Blooding,” 13, 155 Blood-Sport, 12, 13, 151, 162, 171, 243 Bourchier, J. D., 57, 58 Bradshaw, Henry, 37-39 Browning, Oscar, 58, 59 Browning, Robert, 94 _Brutalitarian_, The, 174 Buchanan, Robert, 113, 202, 203 Buckland, James, 167 “Canonization of the Ogre,” 70, 71 Carpenter, Captain Alfred, R.N., 165, 210 Carpenter, Edward, 45, 61, 73, 75, 76, 87-89, 109, 110, 205, 206, 210 Carpenter, Dr. P. H., 62, 68 Catullus, quoted, 235 Champion, H. H., 61, 79, 86 Chesterton, G. K., 127, 128, 174, 178; quoted, 135 Ching Ping, Chinese Mission to Eton, 176 Christmas cruelties, 215 Coit, Dr. Stanton, 70, 71 Colam, John, 149, 161, 162 _Comprendre c’est pardonner_, 241 Conda, Anna, her appeal to the Zoological Society, 165 Cornish, F. Warre, 19, 36 Cory, William, _see_ Johnson Coulson, Colonel W. L. B., 124, 158, 159