The Chinese already have a great, love for certain wild birds, such as Swallows which they encourage to nest in their houses and protect more assiduously than Europeans do. If the Mayor of Great Shanghai would declare a General Sanctuary for all birds within the area which he controls, the" position would gradually become known among the masses of the countryside: no shooting of birds (merely for the love of all birds): no snaring: no robbing nests or eggs. This would something new and its true reason and meaning would gradually become apparent. "Then would follow the lesson that Poultry and market-birds Renerally should not be maltreated "..since it would be realized that this general protection of "Sanctuary" is based upon the national love of birds. And' once a people have een taught to love and protect one form of animal life, merely because it is the right and proper thing to do, surely it is not a long step to tind that the love and protection of all animal life is also a right and proper thing?
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