232 THE IMMORTALITY OF ANIMALS 



that they are not willing to do at the bidding of 

 others. 



Man should regard lower animals as being in the 

 same dependent condition as minors under his 

 government, and not put into his hands to be 

 wantonly tormented, beaten, cut, shot, stabbed, and 

 mutilated. For a man to torture an animal whose 

 life God has put into his hands, is a disgrace to his 

 species. Such a man ought to be ostracized from 

 decent society. 



It is lamentable that at a time when the world is 

 possessed of so many superior advantages, when 

 the men of to-day so far exceed former generations 

 in the attainments of science, and when heaven 

 itself has interposed to teach so many tender les- 

 sons of pity and compassion, that we should be com- 

 pelled to witness the wanton cruelty which is prac- 

 ticed and which we are powerless to prevent. 



Animals are every day perishing under the hands 

 of barbarity, without notice, without mercy, fam- 

 ished as if hunger was no evil, mauled as if they 

 had no sense of pain, and hurried about incessantly 

 from day to day, as if excessive toil was no plague, 

 or extreme weariness was no degree of suffering. 



While it is clear that the lower animals have 



