CHAPTER I. 



GENERAL TREATMENT. 



IF, as Las been shown in other portions of this book, the 

 lower animals, or, at least, certain of them 



1. Possess both feelings and ideas akin to our own. 



2. Are highly sensitive, not to physical only, but also to 

 moral, influences. 



3. Are as capable as we are of the sensations of pleasure 

 and pain, mental, as well as bodily. 



4. Are subject to the same kind of diseases produced by 

 the same kind of causes ; and, in especial, 



5. Are liable to mental disorders of the same character 

 as those of man, and generally described as insanity. 



6. Are subject, moreover, to bodily ailments of various 

 kinds, resulting from purely moral or mental causes. 



7. Possess moral, as well as intellectual, faculties, as 

 capable of cultivation as those of man. 



8. Are endowed with virtues and vices that may be 

 developed or repressed by association with, or instruction by 

 man. 



9. By imitation, or otherwise, are so influenced by man's 

 character as to become a reflex thereof, adopting his vices as 

 well as his virtues ; while 



10. The results of good or bad education, fortunate or 

 unfortunate experience, are hereditarily transmissible 

 it must be confessed that man's treatment of subject ani- 

 mals leaves much to be desired. Those who have perused 

 the preceding chapters of this book must be prepared for 

 the admission, that man's attitude towards his animal slaves 



