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THE trust that can be built up between man and the other animals is something of which I have written before-how delicate it is, how quickly an animal will detect in a human being the failure of confidence, the smell of fear. In the animal world, man loses his domination only when he loses his conviction that he is the dominant.
There are many animals in this book, but it is more concerned with the relationship of human beings to one another, the question of mutual trust.
I am trustful by nature. But if I were not so, I should have become trustful by conviction. If you trust a man, you can never be certain that he will not deceive you; but if you don't trust him, you give him every excuse to deceive you at the earliest chance. If you trust, you may live in a fool's paradise. If you don't trust, you live in a hell which you have created for yourself. You are far more likely to provoke an attack by being prepared for it than if you are unready and unsuspicious. Forewarned, forearmed, the saying is; but how frequently its corollary is Forearmed, forlorn. It is the man, terrified of being stabbed in the back, who is punched in the face.
ISBN:SPOTTEDDE
