"Animals are related to us much more closely
than we think. Though they lack speech, their mental
processes are not very unlike our own. They are similar
to us in their fears, their pains, their affections, their
frustrations, their terrors, their devotions, their grati-
tudes, in short, in all their emotions, even though they
may know them in lesser complexity and degree than we.
They are, as Mohammed said, a people like ourselves.
Regarded from the evolutionist and reincarnationist point
of view, they must be a people struggling along like our-
selves, on the long, difficult road to perfection."
There is an old Moor verse that goes:
"We may enjoy in realms above
The blessings of eternal love:
When man, released from pain and care,
With bird and beast shall heaven share."
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