They tend to make it almost as much of a fetich as, in the last century, the French and German nobles made the chase of the stag, when they carried hunting and game-preserving to a point which was ruinous to the national life.
Roosevelt compares the obsession with fox-hunting to historical excesses in hunting practices that harmed society.
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