Social development.
“Social development,” did I say? Yes, reader, that is what we need, social development.
Man on his long march upward—up from the jungle—has been impeded by a heavy burden—in his blood. He has carried the menagerie—in his veins.
Here permit me to use a very homely metaphor, a figure of speech neither to your taste nor to mine, yet needed and defensible:
In its social development the world is hindered by too much bull-pup.
A bull-pup is at a disadvantage—socially. His social development is stunted. The malignant wrinkles of his prize-fighter face obstruct his vision. His outlook is restricted. Thus his notion of the world is small. Hence the bull-pup is narrow, local and unsocial. Being socially local and mean—and therefore petty and pugnacious—he enjoys a fight. In the world of dogs he is a tough, a “rough-rider” and a “war-lord.” All other dogs are “foreigners,” “guilty,” and “undesirable citizens.”
Peace is too large and fine for the bull-pup. War is “dee-lightful,” “just bully”—for the bull-pup.
Thus even the humble dog world is worried and hindered by the socially narrow and pugnaciously strenuous bull-pups—“great” and “successful,” in their estimation.
Thus littleness and localism hinder even brutes in their social development.
And it is thus in the human world also.