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Rh But nature does not err; she is still the only one to teach us what is right.

Men who no longer listen to the voice of nature become the victims of a thousand different diseases and miseries. But the creatures of pure nature, on the other hand, the animals of our forests, are free from sickness and from everything else as well that corresponds to the sins and vices of mankind.

To-day, indeed, there is not a spot left where man has not interfered with nature for the worse. Therefore we may find even in free nature, in the forest among plants and animals, single instances of taint and disease, but these are still so rare, compared with the infinite sufferings and the great misery of mankind that the words of the poet quoted above still hold good.

The creatures of nature are, indeed, free from disease. But they also fall easy victims to it as soon as they are withdrawn from unmolested nature, and no longer stand in the relation to light