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fullness of life. Indeed, that is what the healthy animal does, enjoys all that life means to it; care, anxiety, apprehension, fear, as we understand them, have no place in its economy. Tragedy and death are all around, but they mean nothing to the creature which has no fear of extinction, but is simply conscious that it exists and that its existence consists in satisfying its immediate needs.