Article July 27, 1963 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Esmé Wynne-Tyson, W. H. Bourne

Esmé Wynne-Tyson, Editor of World Forum in Animals' Defender London, England

It is much easier to have an injection than to refuse to indulge a bad temper, or jealousy; much pleasanter to take a pill than to give up one's vices; much simpler to be the object of attention on the psychiatrist's couch than to attempt the difficult but necessary process of self-purification. Yet, as we now see, the disciplines and self-perfectioning required by exponents of spiritual healing are precisely what were needed to avoid the terrible moral degeneration and drug-addiction of the modern world.

If people knew that they could not be healthy unless they were moral and ethical, and were not able to obtain relief from their sufferings by means of external prescriptions owed to the tormenting of helpless animals, they would soon make an effort to change their habits, and we should at last have a predominantly moral as well as healthy world.

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