At the first bullfight I ever went to I expected to be horrified and perhaps sickened by what I hadbeen told would happen to the horses. Everything I had read about the bull ring insisted on that point;most people who wrote of it condemned bullfighting outright as a stupid brutal business, but eventhose that spoke well of it as an exhibition of skill and as a spectacle deplored the use of the horsesand were apologetic about the whole thing. The killing of the horses in the ring was consideredindefensible. I suppose, from a modern moral point of view, that is, a Christian point of view, thewhole bullfight is indefensible; there is certainly much cruelty, there is always danger, either soughtor unlooked for, and there is always death, and I should not try to defend it now, only to tell honestlythe things I have found true about it. To do this I must be altogether frank, or try to be, and if thosewho read this decide with disgust that it is written by some one who lacks their, the readers', finenessof feeling I can only plead that this may be true. But whoever reads this can only truly make such ajudgment when he, or she, has seen the things that are spoken of and knows truly what their reactionsto them would be.
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