Ix Rtish^ on studying the diseases of Animals. 



was told, that the only kind action that man had performed 

 during his whole life, was to liberate a lamb which had been 

 entangled by one of its feet, by means of a briar, in crossing 

 a field, and that as a reward for that act, his foot was ex- 

 empted from pmiishment. 



I proceed in the ninth and last place, to mention a reason 

 for making the health of domestic animals the subject of our 

 studies and care, which I should hesitate in delivering, had 

 it not been sanctioned by the name of a man w^hose discove- 

 ries in physiological, metaphysical, and theological science, 

 mark an sera in the achievements of the human mind : I mean 

 the great and good, — I had almost said the inspired Dr. 

 Hartly And that is, their probable relation to us in a re- 

 surrection after death, and an existence in a future state. I 

 shall read a short passage from the Doctor's works upon this 

 subject. After expressing a doubt concerning the redemp- 

 tion of the brute creation, he adds, " However, their fall 

 with Adam, the covenant made with them after the deluge, 

 their serving lor sacrifices for the sins of men, and as types 

 and emblems in the prophecies, and their being command- 

 ed to praise God, seem to intimate that there is mercy in 

 store for them, more than we may expect, to be revealed in 

 due time."* 



In favor of these remarks of Dr. Hartly, it may be said, 

 that as moral evil and death accompanied each other in the 

 human race, they are probably connected in the brute crea- 

 tion — That they possess nearly all our vices and virtues ; that 

 the perfection of the divine government required that their 

 vices should be punished and their virtues rewarded ; that 

 reparation should be made to them for their accumulated suf- 

 ferings in this world ; and that the divine bounty discovered 

 in the gift of their pleasures would be rendered abortive, un- 

 less they were placed in a situation to make returns for them, 

 in praise and gratitude in a future state of existence. 



'History of Miin. Vol. ii. p. 486. 



