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has usually much more to do with want of intelli- 

 gence. But in the present matter, besides this 

 want of intelligence, our slaughtering, as I say, 

 argues want of faith in God ; or rather, it means a 

 firm faith in the malignity of God, hut none in his 

 benignity. It means a sincere belief that the air 

 God has g'iven us to breathe is deleterious, until it 

 has been mixed by men with sulphurous, carbolic or 

 other foul vapours ;* that God has created animals 

 to spread poison and death ; that when He has made 

 his creatures, He does not know how to take care of 

 them ; and that his ways of doing so are altogether 

 wrong ways. The lowest savages want intelli- 

 gence to notice the good things they enjoy, but 

 they cannot help noticing the exceptional evil things 

 they suffer. So they only notice or are conscious 

 of evil. Thus they consciously believe in nothing 

 else. That is to say, they only believe in the devil. 

 And only believing in him, they very properly, 

 under the circumstances, address all their prayers to 

 him ; for otherwise, they of course could not pray at 

 all. An increase of intelligence makes men able to 

 understand, and therefore fit to be told that they are 

 sons of God, not of the devil. Have we got this 



* Of course I do not deny the effect of these things in 

 places that pure air cannot reach. But there ought to be no 

 such places. For the rest, if carbolic vapours were good, 

 I believe God would have given them to us to breathe, instead 

 of the air he has given us. As He has not done so, I prefer 

 pure air. 



