LOVE OF THE CHASE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 434, 27 January 1912, Page 2

LOVE OF THE CHASE.

'A' GREAT NATURAL MASTER PASSION. It is possible that love of the chase is second only to love itself among the great passions of humanity ; for war, as we understand it, must have had its origin in personal struggle for supremacy rather than in the absolute* desire to fight. In any case, it is true that age after age man lived by the chase, only ceasing to do so when the scaffolding of civilisation rose high enough to enable him to exist upon an artificial piano; in other words, made it possible for him to depute the task of slaugluei for food.

Of course, it may be argued t.iat the kinship between the chief of a paleolithic clan in a shooting suit of blue woad, armed, as he was, with a stone axe and spcar-head, and Theodore Roosevelt, clad in modern

tweeds, and carrying that weapon o

the heir of all the ages, the repeal - ing rifle of precision, may lie counted as remote.

Yet, if it were possible that the two should meet and converse ni some mutually comprehensible l;:n ' uage, they would in a remarkably short time find more points of e> ntact than would be possible v. iln ;.;i.v other pair of individuals separated by the same interval of time. They would find that they possessed in common an absorbing lopje ( >i interest, having its root in their devotion to a great natural mastc passion.—"Fry's Magazine."