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Olaf Stapledon on Pets

1886–1950 England

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Nothing but man was really cruel, vindictive, except perhaps the loathly cat.

Sirius (1944)

In man, social intercourse has centred mainly on the process of absorbing fluid into the organism, but in the domestic dog and to a lesser extent among all wild canine species, the act charged with most social significance is the excretion of fluid.

Sirius (1944)

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