Would it not be downright cruel to keep him in semi-captivity in a town or city, where the opportunities for wreaking havoc and destruction upon the landscape are necessarily so limited? In a word, is it right to attract Wombats?

[Footnote:] The head of a Pike, served at supper, is said to have caused the death from terror of Theodoric the Goth, who imagined the fish's features to be those of Symmachus, a man he had just killed. But for this story, we of today would have no idea what Symmachus looked like.

It is because of his brain that [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.

Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.