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thy daily food. Why cannot I, poor fool that I am, 

 live like these little saints in the fulness of content 

 and trust." 



Almost every one seems to enjoy, to some extent, 

 the destruction of life. Some children at a very 

 early age delight in such amusement. They will 

 catch flies and other insects and pin them to boards, 

 pull off their legs and wings, and seem to enjoy 

 their painful writhings and flutterings. They are 

 often taught by thoughtless parents the early use 

 of whips, sling-shots and air-guns, and soon delight 

 to torment and maim every creature they come in 

 contact with. 



"While in college I was frequently called upon to 

 witness the experiments made on animals by the 

 hypodermic syringe, air-pump, electricity, and some 

 of the most horrible and useless forms of vivisec- 

 tion. Such cruelty ought to be prohibited by law. 

 Men who claim to be teachers are lost to all sense 

 of humanity when they practice such useless and 

 barbarous experiments. It is a miserable education 

 for the young to behold poor creatures suffering 

 with agony of the most horrible kind, for the pur- 

 pose of making physiological demonstrations, which 

 may be just as accurately made without the ex- 



