It is astonishing how many predictions of the other 20th century assume creature ( that is , all animals ) would eventually be out simply because they were not needed by humans . A piece by John Elfreth Watkins , Jr. in the December , 1900Ladies Home Journalpredicted that there would be , “ no wild animals except in menageries . ”
The article above , from the November 11 , 1926 Galveston Daily News ( Galveston , TX ) , run under similar assumptions . Titled , “ To rule Some economic consumption For Every Wild Animal , ” the piece feign that in the future animals would have to justify their existence by prove their utility to humankind . That ’s a far cry from today when we ’re trying to save icy bears , which everyone cognise are otiose and double-dealing . I think really , what has a polar bear done for you latterly ?
[ scientist ] predict that the daytime will issue forth when the wild creatures of the earth will have to pay their way or become as extinct as many forms of fauna life have in the dim length of the past .
Unless an animal can impart something definite to human sprightliness – food to be eaten , clothes to be have on , labor to lighten the burden of man – then his doom is sealed and the last of his kinship group will one day lapse out of the picture .
See also : What May Happen in the Next Hundred yr ( Ladies Home Journal , 1900)Animals of 2076 ( 1977)Animal Food abandon ( The Anaconda Standard , 1914)French Prints Show Year 2000 ( circa 1910 )
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