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Men and women terrify themselves with mental pictures of age, of its diseases and infirmities, its growing cancers and shrinking arteries. Yet they seldom relate their personal experience to the wider scheme of things, to the universe as a whole. If they did, they would soon see that not only are decay and disintegration everywhere in nature, but brutality and murder are there also on an appalling scale. Millions of animals, insects, birds, fish, and sometimes humans, attack, deform, mutilate or kill other creatures.

-- Notebooks Category 26: World-Idea > Chapter 2 : Change As Universal Activity > # 18