12 PREFACE 



From obeying these moral laws, we shall reap as 

 certain a harvest of benefits to ourselves as by 

 obeying any other code of laws ever established. 

 The various forms of wanton cruelty which have 

 hitherto prevailed throughout the world's history 

 will cease when the day of knowledge herein advo- 

 cated is ushered in through the glorious light of the 

 true revelation of God's purposes. 



Viewing Him as the Creator of all living things, 

 and seeing that the whole of creation is constructed 

 upon a plan of benevolence and justice, we expand 

 to loftier, more generous and more holy emotions 

 as we feel that we are only a part of a system, 

 much of which has not yet been revealed. 



The place man holds as compared with the whole 

 universe of God's creation is humble beyond all 

 statement of degrees. Man, considered zoologically 

 and without regard to the distinct characters as- 

 signed to him by theology, simply takes his place 

 as an animal of the mammalia class, and nothing 

 more. 



Above him is the higher creation of angels, arch- 

 angels, cherubim and seraphim, and of innumerable 

 worlds of which we know very little. 



The theory of the immortality of animals is 



