The Island of Dr. Moreau

as prendick hears the cries of the puma, he wants to escape. He says, 'It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pty come troubling us." What does he mean here?

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'It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.'

Basically it is saying that it is human nature to pity other souls in agony.