Digital heart book

We do not need to pity a machine. Why should flesh and
blood, whether of dumb beasts or of more intelligent beings, suffer the
agony of labor when the work can be better done by mechanical means?
"While speaking of the lower animals I may as well say here that we have
no wild beasts. All have been tamed; not merely brought into subjection,
but made the friends and companions in a sense of our higher race. Every
animal, large and small, has lost its power and will to harm us. The wasp
has lost its sting, the serpent its poison, and the tiger its desire to
tear. And not only is their enmity to us all gone, but they no longer prey
upon each other. Perfect peace reigns in this realm also."
"What has brought about this highly interesting condition?" I asked. "Was
there a natural tendency toward perfection on the part of the beasts?"
"No," replied Thorwald, "I think not. The change has been accomplished by
us. Nothing that has life could help being uplifted by contact with our
ever-expanding civilization.


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