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What chapter does this following quote represent and why do you think so?
It was an old song, old as the breed itself---one of the first songs of the younger world in a day when songs were sad... When he moaned and sobbed, it was with the pain of living that was of old the pain of his wild fathers... And that he should be stirred by it marked the completeness with which he harked back through the ages of fire and roof to the raw beginnings of life in the howling ages. (33)
This quote represents Chapter III, "The Dominant Primordial Beast." In this chapter, Buck's inner primal beast is telling him what to do and how to act to survive. The primal beast is basically just made up of instincts and memories passed on by his ancestors. When Buck and the team pulls up in Dawson, they spend every night there howling. The howling, described as an old, sad song, seems to bring Buck through time and experience what his ancestors had experienced when mankind and wolfkind were still new to the world. This entire chapter represents naturalism and how Buck, when thrust into a strange and new world, adapts and sheds civilization in order to survive.