Wherever there is animal worship there is human sacrifice.

The huge modern heresy is to alter the human soul to fit modern social conditions, instead of altering modern social conditions to fit the human soul.

The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic.

We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.