"At some horse-race Master, even the public, who also promote this beastly business were angered because many horses broke their legs when jumping over the concrete rings, and had to be shot. Yet the chairman of the so-called International Hippic Association, declared that it was a normal course. Do you think that people can sink lower even than that?"
"Of course they can, and they are. There are the crabs and other shell-fish that are thrown in boiling water while alive, the fishes thrown back alive, in the water after their bellies have been slit, in order to get the caviar out, there are the mining-horses and ponies, robbed of their sight, because that works better underground, and, ... what do you say, ..., yes, mothers gauging-out their children's eyes because it is better for begging. Homer was blind, and Herodotus describes also that blinding bards made them unable to escape. Read Herodotus again, but then, with constantly in Mind, that exactly the same bestialities as he reports, are going on still. Do you think that I, with my limited mental power, could ever hope to tell you where the limits of Man's bastardy are to be found? I would not even try."