"He is as treacherous as a snake."
"He was as hungry as a wolf," etc. ——
Our good and our bad qualities alike are mapped out in our humble animal relations.
The horse stands for ambition, which strives and suffers in silence. The dog represents friendship, which suffers and sacrifices much, but whines loudly when injured.
We have no doubt that of the twelve passions which enter into Fourier's complex analysis of man each has its prototype in some one animal. ——
To rebel at the animal combination which makes up a man would be folly.
The Maker of us all, from ants to anti-imperialists, naturally gathered together the various parts in lower animal form before finishing the work in man.
A harmoniously balanced mixture of all the animals is calculated undoubtedly to produce the perfect man. ——
Therefore, study your animal make-up. Analyze honestly and intelligently the so-called "lower" creatures from whom you derive your mental characteristics. If you have not yet done so, study at once some good work on embryology, and learn with amazement and awe of your marvelous transformations before birth.
Then do your best to control the menagerie that is at work in your mind.