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Women in Love

CHAPTER XII
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'She is a living creature, why should she stand anything, just because you choose to make her?
She has as much right to her own being, as you have to yours.' 'There I disagree,' said Gerald.

'I consider that mare is there for my use.

Not because I bought her, but because that is the natural order.
It is more natural for a man to take a horse and use it as he likes, than for him to go down on his knees to it, begging it to do as it wishes, and to fulfil its own marvellous nature.' Ursula was just breaking out, when Hermione lifted her face and began, in her musing sing-song: 'I do think--I do really think we must have the COURAGE to use the lower animal life for our needs.

I do think there is something wrong, when we look on every living creature as if it were ourselves.

I do feel, that it is false to project our own feelings on every animate creature.


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