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hearted animal in this world, and the more than 

 uncertainty that, as Byron says, he will be 



" Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth," 



we cannot but feel regret that he should be without 

 his reward. But yet this is a point not exactly 

 decided upon by man ; at least, it has been con- 

 sidered as a fit subject for speculation by deep and 

 able thinkers. Mr. Locke, for example, doubted 

 whether brutes survive the grave, because there is 

 no hint given of it in revelation ; but Dr. Priestley 

 thought, if the resurrection of the dead be within 

 the proper course of nature, and there be something 

 remaining of every organized body that death does 

 not destroy, there will be reason to conclude that 

 they will be benefited by it as well as ourselves. 

 " The misery,*" says this forcible writer, and great 

 moral philosopher, " some animals are exposed to 

 in this life, may induce us to think that a merciful 

 and just God will make them some recompense for 

 it hereafter." 



But no animal has met w^ith more variety of 

 respect shown towards him than the dog has. By 

 the law of Moses he was declared unclean, and was 

 held in great contempt by the Jews, as also by the 

 Turks, and kept by both merely for the purposes 

 of scavenging their streets. In every part of the 

 sacred writings, as also in those of Greece and 

 Rome, not only are images introduced from the 

 works of nature, and metaphors drawn from the 

 manners and economy of animals, but the names of 

 them are applied to persons supposed to possess 



