“The animal kingdom has been reared in a gory cradle.”

— J. Howard Moore

Savage Survivals (1916), Savage Survivals in Higher Peoples (Continued)
Source: "The Fighting Instinct", p. 138 https://archive.org/details/savagesurvivals00moorrich/page/138/mode/1up

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