Then Tolstoy and the Humanitarians said that the world was growing more merciful, and therefore no one would ever desire to kill.

And Mr.Mick not only became a vegetarian, but at length declared vegetarianism doomed ("shedding," as he called it finely, "the green blood of the silent animals"), and predicted that men in a better age would live on nothing but salt.

And then came the pamphlet from Oregon (where the thing was tried), the pamphlet called "Why should Salt suffer ?" and there was more trouble.
[Illustration: CITY MEN OUT ON ALL FOURS IN A FIELD COVERED WITH VEAL CUTLETS.] And on the other hand, some people were predicting that the lines of kinship would become narrower and sterner.

There was Mr.Cecil Rhodes, who thought that the one thing of the future was the British Empire, and that there would be a gulf between those who were of the Empire and those who were not, between the Chinaman in Hong Kong and the Chinaman outside, between the Spaniard on the Rock of Gibraltar and the Spaniard off it, similar to the gulf between man and the lower animals.

And in the same way his impetuous friend, Dr.Zoppi ("the Paul of Anglo-Saxonism"), carried it yet further, and held that, as a result of this view, cannibalism should be held to mean eating a member of the Empire, not eating one of the subject peoples, who should, he said, be killed without needless pain.