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with, told him as a means of keeping him from doing it hj 

 that only half of it the hind half was his, and that 



3 arm 

 she 



was going to keep the other half its head as hers. The 

 next day, sitting in the parlor, she overheard a terrible cry 

 of animal pain coming from the play-room, and exclaimed : 



squawked." And that is what Darwin has taught us with 

 regard to the whole animal kingdom, man included, that it 

 is only a larger kitten, and that cruelty can not pinch the 

 meanest worm at its tail without having its farthest human 

 end squawk, can not do any part of it needless harm with- 

 out having it react through nerves subtler than those of 

 flesh and harm the harmer also the frightened calf poison 

 its eater, and the whip that scars the horse's flesh at one 

 end ply an unseen lash at the other, scarring with its every 

 stroke the driver's soul. Kevealing our origin from a com- 

 mon stock, it is not only the good Samaritan, but his good 

 ass also that is made by it our neighbor ; not only the sav- 

 age man, but the savage beast that is our brother ; not only 

 at the tomb of Adam in Palestine, but at the tomb of the 

 Eozoon, Nature-built, in the primeval rock, that we can 

 stand, weeping, if we will, and say, " A distant relative to be 

 sure, and yet a relative." And all the reasons that ethics 

 can show based on self-interest, gratitude, blood connection, 

 and the mystery of a common life-tie for the exercise of jus- 

 tice, kindness, and the golden rule toward the lowest man, 

 it shows hold equally good for their exercise toward the 

 humblest brute. Philanthropy is widened by it into zooph- 

 ily; humanitarianism into panzoicism; altruism between, 

 man and man into altruism between man and all that lives. 

 It completes the great circle that theology has traveled from 

 its finding of Deity at first in animals out in its search for 

 Him into the Infinite, and then back through man to its 

 finding of Him in their life again makes it the word of 

 science as well as poetry that 



" He prayeth well who loveth well 

 Both man and bird and beast." 



And though its practical influence in doing away with 

 cruelty is yet only partially felt, it has the potency in it of 

 truth, and it is as sure at last to bring about a reform in 

 their treatment as Christianity is in that of human beings. 



