You should not insult the brutes by such a misuse of that word; they have not deserved it," and he went on talking like that.

"It is like your paltry race--always lying, always claiming virtues which it hasn't got, always denying them to the higher animals, which alone possess them.

No brute ever does a cruel thing--that is the monopoly of those with the Moral Sense.

When a brute inflicts pain he does it innocently; it is not wrong; for him there is no such thing as wrong.

And he does not inflict pain for the pleasure of inflicting it--only man does that.