"RED IN TOOTH AND CLAW ."
TO TUB EDITOR. Sir.-Your inquiring correspondent will find a most illuminating passage at the close of the second chapter of AH. Russcl Wallace s book "On Darwinism," where he refers specifically to Tennyson's famous line, and proves that the picture of nature's cruelty therein represented is ft greatly exaggerated one, and tie reflection of the imagined sensations Of CUltl; valcd men and women. " The popular idea, he says, " of the struggle for existence, entailing misery and pain on the animal world, is the very roverse of the truth. It is difficult to imagine a system by which a greater baimice of happiness could havo been scoured. Ho will also find there references to other literature on tho subject.-I am, etc., Wu. Jeuie.
May 12, 1900.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11371, 14 May 1900, Page 7
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