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there should be the same law for the rich as 

 for the poor, and vice versa ; that is to say 

 if fine is the punishment for cruelty to animals 

 or women, so let it be ; but the quantum of 

 fine should not be the same, otherwise the poor 

 subject themselves to punishment and the rich 

 do not. An ad valoram fine in accordance with 

 a man's circumstances would be a just law, but 

 as the thing now stands it is a flagrantly un- 

 just one, and we have many of which the same 

 may be said, and ever shall have so long as 

 fixed punishments are in use. 



But to return to Matches against Time ; any 

 match as regards speed only is, if fairly carried 

 out, unobjectionable to the public as regards 

 their effects, and equally so on the part of the 

 animal on the score of suffering. An uncom- 

 monly fast horse will trot his mile considerably 

 under the three minutes with just as much 

 ease to himself as the one who requires nearly 

 four to do the same distance. It is the trial 



