476 BREAKING AND TRAINING. 



there shoulfi exist a combination, supported by the rich, established to 

 suppress cruelty when perpetrated by the lower classes ? The society 

 alluded to should not be abolished. As an institution, it is right. But 

 are the patrons in their proper positions, when punishing cruelty to 

 animals? The highest personage heads both the doings of the race- 

 course and the corporation which professes humanity. But which is 

 •worst — the sin which, for its pleasure, tortures the young, or the want 

 which, hardened by adversity, disregards the pangs of the aged ? Let 

 the society be continued; but let the race-course also be amended. 

 Bender it a rational amusement : let it no longer remain the dominion 

 of vice, upheld for gambling purposes, and maintained by the heartless 

 waste of that life of which man, in gratitude, should assert his right to 

 be the natural protectoi. 



