b>, Zopisy 
Agricultural traés (for inftance) I have not 
noticed encouraged in fchool libraries, or its objeéts 
made any part of a tutor’s monitions. But, fir, 
what muft be the cafe, if rational purfuits be not 
pleafingly enforced on the attention of the young 
énguirer? Why, if good feed be not fown, tares 
will ufurp its place, and fociety receive pofitive in- 
jury, in proportion as the mental field is occupied 
by extraneous and frivolous matter. 
One part in thofe objets which fall within your 
cognizance, I have noticed with pleafure, and that is, 
in pointing out (even on a felfifh ground) that it is 
the intereft of mankind to treat all animals with 
kindnefs and humanity—to give them wholfome 
food, to work them moderately, and by keeping 
them warm, clean, and comfortable, fhield them 
from thofe feverities they are (comparatively) as 
fenfible to as ourfelves. 
Imprefled with a conviction of the injuries they 
fuftain from our hands, I have ventured to plead 
the caufe of the Rights of Animals; and in the 
European Magazine for January 1796, &c. (if I 
recollect) I publifhed a {mall compilation on that 
important fubject. . 
It is difficult for a young writer to advance any 
thing abfolutely new; little is left, but to prefent 
well-known faéts in a more ftriking point of view, 
and thereby rivet attention, and facilitate their 
reception. 
Aa 
