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Wolves & Doves. As a field surgeon in World War II, Dr. Lorenz watched the highest of the vertebrates practice mass mutilations on his own species. Among the lower orders, only such "gentle" animals as doves and hares, he says, are guilty of the same unfeeling cruelty. The wolf, a popular symbol of ferocious wickedness, is psychologically incapable of killing his most hated rival if the rival bares his neck in meek submission.
This, the observant naturalist points out, is the meaning of the Biblical admonition : " 'And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other.' Not so that your enemy may strike you again do you turn the other cheek . . . but to make him unable to do it." Naturalist Lorenz, drawing a moral, says that the day may come when mankind will be divided into two camps, each with the power of destroying the other. "Shall we then behave like doves or wolves? . . . We may well be apprehensive."