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and deaf animal without attracting its attention. 

 But the saddest part of the experiment is yet to 

 come. Up to the time he put out its eyes and des- 

 troyed its hearing he had never offered it any 

 kindness, but after this cruel work he says he 

 " caressed it without its falling into a rage." Now 

 just think for a moment of the action of that dog 

 at the first offer of kindness through all that in- 

 tense agony. Here was an affectionate, forgiving 

 nature in that poor, bleeding, blind, and deaf dog 

 which seems more like the nature of Deity Himself 

 than an animal, as it exhibits a virtue far superior 

 to the nature of man. After that incarnate fiend 

 had done all of his bloody and cruel work, the poor 

 dog was ready and willing to make friends and 

 kiss the murderous hands which had caused its slow 

 torture to death. But the dog and the man have 

 long since been dead, and now comes the question, 

 where are their souls ? 



What kind of justice, love, and mercy would give 

 the soul of that man an eternal home in heaven 

 among the good, merciful, and pure, and doom the 

 soul of that loving and forgiving dog to an eternal 

 annihilation ? All nature shrinks from such injus- 

 tice. There is something in the idea of annihilation 



