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and distorted countenance, all of which are visible 

 in lower animals as well as in man. 



Man and the lower animals are equally supplied 

 with sensory nerves and are equally subject to pain. 

 It is not consistent with the nature of the laws of 

 the Creator that He should make a nerve for man 

 which is capable of sensibility, and one just like it 

 in appearance, for lower animals, which is incapa- 

 ble of feeling. 



No physiologist has yet been able to make such 

 a distinction. How necessary, then, that animals 

 should be treated as sensitive beings, and not 

 as automata. That they have reason controlled by 

 the will is as well demonstrated as it is that man 

 has that faculty. 



It is by reason and will power that migratory 

 birds are capable of steering, with the precision of 

 a compass, from one climate or country to another; 

 and which if possessed by man, might render use- 

 less the compass for a like purpose. 



Carrier-pigeons have been taken hundreds of 

 miles away, and when let loose, have returned to 

 their homes in the most direct line. Dogs, cats, 

 horses, and other animals, will also return to their 

 homes from a great distance. Thus we are com- 



