260 THE IMMORTALITY OF ANIMALS 



If we would save the structure of society from 

 utter dissolution, maintain inviolate our civil and 

 religious liberties, and preserve ourselves as a na- 

 tion, we must teach and enforce humanity. This 

 moral restraint should be taught from our pulpits, 

 in our schools, and at our homes. And, especially 

 should parents set the example, if they expect their 

 children to aspire to kind and gentle disposition. 



" Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sona 

 To love it too. The springtime of our years 

 Is soon dishonored and defiled in most 

 By budding ills that ask a prudent hand 

 To check them. But, alas ! none sooner shoots 

 If unrestrained, into luxuriant growth 

 Than cruelty, most devilish of them all." 



And above all things, do not crush out humanity 

 by trying to ridicule a tender heart. I have seen 

 men become angry, and have heard them abuse 

 their wives and daughters because they were too 

 kind-hearted to behead a chicken. How inhuman 

 to abuse a person for possessing the noblest trait of 

 character that God has given mankind. Men may 

 frown and ridicule, but angels will smile and 

 Heaven will bless such sweet dispositions. 



I was once sitting in a friend's house when a 

 sweet, bright little girl came tripping into the room 



