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An Animal (n.) stands, in myth, for instinct and also for the prohibition of instinct — so man becomes human by conquering his animal nature.
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An Animal (n.) in nature is a well-behaved, pious citizen; only man is extravagant — assimilate your animal and you become peculiarly law-abiding.
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An Animal (n.) does not rebel against its own kind: none hoards its prey while its brother starves, none imagines it is an elephant when it is a mosquito.
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An Animal (n.) has not yet blundered into consciousness or pitted a self-willed ego against the power it lives from; were it conscious, it would be morally better than man.
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An Animal (n.) appearing in a dream measures how far a content still lies from human consciousness — cold-blooded or invertebrate, the deeper the unconsciousness.
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The Animal (n.) only becomes more beastlike when repressed in us — which is why no religion is so defiled with innocent blood as Christianity, and no war bloodier than the war of the Christian nations.