If
you were pure animal, right through to the marrow, created and evolved to be
nothing more, you would feel no conflict in reacting to environmental stress
and pressure, because an animal can live no other way.
Human
beings cannot be merely evolved animals, for though we do indeed respond like
animals, in doing so we feel conflict. This conflict that we feel, whatever it
is, "speaks" to us of another way. There is an order of life and form
of existence from within and above, different from and superior to the natural
order that governs the animal world. The anxiety we feel is not of flesh, but
of spirit. It comes from an inner knowing that there is something wrong with
the way we exist, responding to stress as animals do.
On
the animal plane, all living things exist under the law of survival: kill or be
killed. But we, as human beings, ought to live under a different system. The
law of the creature is chance. For us it should be faith.
There is an order of life and form
of existence from within and above, different from and superior to the natural
order that governs the animal world.
There
is no such thing as natural injustice. If little fishes are eaten by bigger
fishes who are eaten by still larger predators, there is nothing wrong with
that. But surely you see something wrong with man living that way. Natural
living things do not have our consciousness. Our realm is inaccessible to them.
They are but living machines, born to die so that their whole natural order may
continue. Suffering and death do not mean to animals what they mean to us. We
see a mother duck with her flotilla of ducklings swimming peacefully in a pond,
single file. Suddenly, plop! one disappears, gobbled up by a big-mouth bass.
The law of chance is at work here: one of the brood had to go to feed a hungry
fish, and nature allowed for that. Another goes to the hawk so he can go on
being a hawk, while what remains of the brood go on being ducks. No creature is
exempt from the law of chance and survival. One thing eats another in what we
call a food chain. In this system of death and survival of the fittest (or the
luckiest) an infinite number of creatures have their being. With billions of
them devoured daily and billions born to replace them, it is obvious that the
death of one is part of the life of another. Without "overpopulation"
and eating and being eaten, there could be no natural order, no variety and no
renewing of life.
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