Castera cle genere hoc mirande multa videmus, 

 QUEB violare ficlem quasi sensibus omnia quajrunt : 

 Nequidquam ; quoniam pars horum maxima fallit 

 Propter opinatus animi quos addimus ipsei 

 Pro visis ut sint, quse non stint sensibus visa. 

 Nam nihil segrius est quam res secernere apertas 

 Ab dubiis, animus quas ab se protinus addit. 



LUCRETIUS, De Ecrum Natura, Lib. iv. 1. 464. 



The life of the brute has commonly one immense compensation in its 

 favour ; the perfection of the individual existence is so rarely sacrificed 

 to the prosperity of the race. It is not necessary, in order that one 

 hippopotamus should cut his food conveniently, that another hippopotamus 

 should lead an unhealthy existence like a Sheffield grinder ; nor does the 

 comfort of any bird's nest require that another bird should slowly poison 

 itself in preparing acetates of copper, sulphurets of mercury, or oxides of 

 lead. The pride and beauty of a brute are never based upon the enduring 

 misery of another brute. The wild drake's plumage, splendid as it is, 

 suggests no painful thought of consumptive weavers, of ill-paid lace- 

 inakers, of harassed over- worked milliners : and the most sensitive of us 

 may enjoy the sight of it without painful thoughts ; for it is God's free 

 gift, causing no heart-burning of envy, no care nor anxiety of any kind. 

 P. G. HAMERTON, Chapters on Animals. 



We are then in a world of spirits, as well as in a world of sense ; and 

 we hold communion with it, and take part in it, though we are not con- 

 scious of doing so. If this seems strange to anyone, let him reflect that 

 we are undeniably taking part in a third world, which we do indeed see, 

 but about which we do not know more than about the Angelic hosts ; the 

 world of brute animals. Can anything be more marvellous or startling, 

 unless we were used to it, than that we should have a race of beings about 

 us, whom we do but see, and as little know their state, or can describe 

 their interests, or their destiny, as we can tell of the inhabitants of the 

 sun and moon ? It is indeed a very overpowering thought, when we get 

 to fix our minds on it, that we familiarly use, I may say hold intercourse 

 with, creatures who are as much strangers to us, as mysterious, as if they 

 were the fabulous, xmearthly beings, more powerful than man, yet his 

 slaves, which Eastern superstitions have invented. NEWMAN, Parochial 

 Sermons, 'The Invisible World.' 



