Tarzan of the Apes [with Biographical Introduction]

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Her wild scream was not a warning.

A little child may find companionship in many strange and simple creatures, but to a grown man there must be some semblance of equality in intellect as the basis for agreeable association.

"If you have a chief who is cruel, do not do as the other apes do, and attempt, any one of you, to pit yourself against him alone.

"Beast?" she murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours."

"Alone and unarmed, a single man is no match for any of the larger beasts; but if ten men were together, they would combine their wits and their muscles against their savage enemies, while the beasts, being unable to reason, would never think of combining against the men.

Do not assume that men are your enemies until they prove it."

But one might as well judge all blacks by the fellow who ran amuck last week, or decide that all whites are cowards because one has met a cowardly white.

"Only a fool performs any act without reason."