" As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into 

 large communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he 

 ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all the members of 

 the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being 

 once reached, there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies 

 extending to the men of all nations and races. Sympathy beyond the 

 confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one 

 of the latest moral acquisitions. . . . This virtue, one of the noblest 

 with which man is endowed, seems to arise incidentally from our 

 sympathies becoming more tender and more widely diffused, until they 

 are extended to all sentient beings." CHARLES DAB WIN. 



" I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid 



and self-contained ; 



I stand and look at them long and long I 

 They do not sweat and whine about their condition ; 

 They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins; 

 They do not make one sick discussing their duty to God ; 

 Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented 

 With the mania of owning things; 

 Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands 



of years ago; 

 Not one is respectable nor unhappy over the whole earth." 



WALT WHITMAN. 



