animal-prayer

Updated: May 24, 2025

They have been lavishly fitted out with the instruments for that purpose. Is it credible, then, that the Almighty Being who, as we assume, hears this continuous scream animal-prayer, as we may call it and not only pays no heed to it, but lavishly fits out animals with instruments for tormenting and devouring one another, that such a Being should suspend the laws of gravitation and physiology, should perform a miracle equal to that of arresting the sun for all miracles are equipollent simply to prolong the brief and useless existence of such a thing as man, of one man out of the myriads who shriek, and shriek in vain?

Henry J. (Henry John) Coke - Tracks of a Rolling Stone