Part Two

Trail Wood #27.92.09 Earl Plato

PART TWO-
Teale continued with his look at suffering in animals:
“ The keenness of the nervous systems of living creatures which saves their lives so often is not something that can be turned off when sensations become unpleasant. It is unpleasant sensations that warn them of danger. Conscious sensitivity forms the foundation o which life exists. If creatures were mere machines incapable of feeling, if-as an earlier school of scientists believed - the dog that howls in pain really is feeling no pain but is merely giving a mechanical reaction to a stimulus, this intense personal awareness that brings a conscious feeling of both pleasure and pain in life would be lost. Viewing in this light the old dilemma of why so much suffering is in the world, we find a measure of understanding. The suffering of the individual which so often stirs our pity, has its practical value, plays its essential part in he functioning of nature.”