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rending cries would be heard in such a loud and 

 bitter complaint as would echo up against the very 

 vault of heaven, a complaint of sufferings neither 

 the amount nor the intensity of which can be told by 

 any but themselves. If they could be written down 

 against those who have so vilely sinned against them, 

 they would compose such a volume as the world 

 has never yet seen." 



In this series of papers he simply set forth facts 

 and opinions ; not one word was said in malice, and 

 he left the case in the hands of the ladies and gentle- 

 men, or, as he said, a far higher title, the men and 

 women of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, 

 for their decision as to the issue. 



Most earnestly and eloquently did he plead the 

 cause of the animals who could not speak for them- 

 selves. Hear him : "As for you, poor dumb crea- 

 tures of the hand of God, who only by reason of 

 your want of speech are unable to tell the sad and 

 harrowing tale of your own most grievous, most 

 lamentable, bitter, and heart-rending sufferings, 

 heartily, and on my knees, and with tears in my 

 eyes, I have prayed to Him, who saveth both man 

 and beast, that He would, for the sake of One by 

 whom you, as well I, were made and so ' fearfully 

 and wonderfully made'- that He would give a 

 force and a power to my humble words in your 

 behalf which they could never otherwise have of 

 themselves." 



He cordially agreed with Professor F. W. New- 

 man in his nine reasons against the scientific torture 



