How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph) Shmoop has numbered the chapters continuously, but the book renumbers them in each Part.
Quote #4
The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN. (8.15)
The all-caps strike. London conveys one of the natural world's harshest lessons in trollerific terms, spelling out both the stakes of life and the things White Fang believes he has to do in order to, you know, not die.
Quote #5
In short, Beauty Smith was a monstrosity, and the blame of it lay elsewhere. He was not responsible. The clay of him had been moulded in the making. (16.7)
Here's where things get interesting. Beauty comes from civilization, and yet he's not civilized. Furthermore, he's been shaped by forces bigger than him. Natural forces, maybe? That "kill or be killed" thing that London was so big on earlier in the story, perhaps? It certainly seems that way.
Quote #6
And so, fresh from the soft southern world, these dogs, trotting down the gang-plank and out upon the Yukon shore, had but to see White Fang to experience the irresistible impulse to rush upon him and destroy him. They might be town-reared dogs, but the instinctive fear of the Wild was theirs just the same. (15.28)
At this point, White Fang is definitely of the natural world, gobbling up those poor little lap dogs almost before they can mark their territory. And Yet White Fang is ultimately seduced by the same civilization that produced these dogs. Which side is stronger? That's a good question.