Man serves the interests of no creature except himself. And

They had never seen animals behave like this before, and this sudden uprising of creatures whom they were used to thrashing and maltreating just as they chose, frightened them almost out of their wits.

He seized the gun which always stood in a corner of his bedroom,

difficulty in thinking anything out for themselves, but having once accepted the pigs as their teachers, they absorbed everything that they were told, and passed it on to the other animals by simple arguments.

All men are enemies. All animals are comrades.”

Republic of the Animals which would arise when the human race had been finally overthrown.

“Ribbons,” he said, “should be considered as clothes, which are the mark of a human being. All animals should go naked.”

“War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.”

These three had elaborated old Major’s teachings into a complete system of thought, to which they gave the name of Animalism.