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Excerpt from The Gift of the Grass: Being the Autobiography of a Famous Racing Horse
And the grass it is a myriad army of little green people, who always love to live and do good.
Oh, we have just begun to live in this world! We are yet in our Skins Of humanness a lot Of misfit links thick-headed, evil-tempered, Selfish apes who think we know it all and that we are great and wise and are living as God intended we should!
But only if we could look ahead and see what the true race is going to be a million years hence! To them we will have been less than cave-men, cliff-dwellers. For they will have gone to heights indeed, over hills Of progress.
And do you know what I believe will be the dominant characteristic, the ruling spirit of the perfect man? The recognition of life and immortality wherever he sees it, whether in tree, grass, bird, animal, or man. All things will be alive to him and he will respect every little life which lives, and knowing that he himself is immortal and that they also are, even unto the gift Of the life given them, he will respect the rights Of life in those things which we men-apes now wantonly and ignorantly slay.
And he will love all things which the Great first Cause, whom we call God, has made. He will lie down with the grass, and kiss the ?owers as children, and be unto the trees an elder brother. And as for taking human life, the thought will have been bred out Of him eons ago!
I would not live in a country where the blue grass does not grow. I associate it with the idea of divine good-will that God has sent it as a special Sign of his favor and esteem, and that those unfortunate lands where it does not grow are, while blest with other things, to him, as compared with the blue grass country, as a kind of Esau and not a Jacob.
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