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has reached his best estate who does not find in the 

 animal life about him an enjoyable companionship of 

 which he need not be ashamed, and without a sense of 

 which he is not prepared to fulfil his obligations to the 

 creatures dependent upon him. 



619. Cruelty to animals. While it is the purpose of 

 this volume to deal with the facts and principles of 

 science and practice, it is not improper briefly to urge 

 the need of the cultivation of right sentiment concerning 

 kindness in the care of animals, for we really do not fully 

 appreciate the unkindness shown by man toward the 

 inferior species under his control. In no way has he more 

 clearly demonstrated that he partakes of the brute 

 nature than in his treatment of the brute. As a master 

 he has been guilty of cruelty which it is humiliating to 

 contemplate, a cruelty not so swift in its operation as 

 that of the beast of prey, but which is greatly more 

 shocking and is wholly at variance with the exalted 

 characteristics that we attribute to humanity. The half- 

 sheltered animals that have endured our cold northern 

 winters the spavined, wind-broken wrecks of our livery 

 stables, whose infirmities secure for them no relief from 

 hard service the daily exhibitions on our city streets of 

 the patient draft horse with raw flesh under the collar 

 and smarting under blows from unfeeling, cursing drivers 

 and especially the deliberately brutal practices of the 

 race-track, where amid the plaudits of a throng of men 

 and women who would claim to have kind hearts, noble 

 animals, by unjustifiable "scoring" and in the subse- 

 quent race, are often forced to the last limits of endurance 

 these are all evidences of an utterly selfish indiffer- 

 ence to the suffering of living creatures that can neither 

 utter a complaint nor avenge their wrongs. A certain 

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