ONLY THE MEN
Children (says a writer in the Spectator) have a strange sense of < justice. They have been taught to sympathise with the, sufferings of animals, and to show them an unvarying kindliness. Human beings, on the contrary, are divided, in their minds, into the two classes of good and bad. The good are to be rewarded, after the manner of fairy tales; the bad are to be punished. Ronald's father one day gave an animated description of a bull fight, meaning thereafter to point a moral. But the lad was delighted. ' Wouldn't you like to see a fight, daddy V he asked, breathlessly. - . '
' Why, no, my boy. Surely, you wouldn't want to see cruel men baiting the bull You wouldn't like to see poor horses gored to death?' ;/ - v "' No,' said Ronald, with the thoughtfulness of eight years, 'I shouldn't like to see the horses hurt, but,' he added, after some reflection, ' I shouldn't mind seeing those men gored, though.'
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New Zealand Tablet, 4 September 1913, Page 61
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162ONLY THE MEN New Zealand Tablet, 4 September 1913, Page 61
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