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Eastern humanity to the lower animals is conspicuous. In 

 the streets of Cairo and other Eastern towns, according to 

 Lane, such water-troughs have long existed. They are for- 

 tunately common now in our own towns, frequently as the 

 gift of private individuals, sometimes in fit connection with 

 memorial or monumental fountains for man's use ; occasion- 

 ally, as in London, as the result of the systematic efforts of 

 a public association. Such public provision of an ample supply 

 of pure water equally to man and other animals cannot be 

 too strongly commended, or too widely imitated. 



18. The public or private distribution of food either in the 

 streets, squares, or other special localities of cities, in the 

 farmyard, or on the window sill. By benevolent persons, 

 especially ladies, whose hearts overflow sometimes with ( the 

 milk of human kindness,' much bounty, in the form of bread- 

 crumbs from the breakfast or dinner table exposed on the 

 window sill, is distributed to many a large clientele for in- 

 stance, of sparrows and other city birds. In certain Eastern 

 towns we learn that charitable persons, full of sympathy for 

 all classes of their fellow-creatures, ' may be seen daily en- 

 gaged in distributing in the streets their surplus food to dogs 

 and birds ' (' Animal World '). 



If, as has been already shown, it be ignorance that is 

 really at the root of the contempt, neglect, or cruelty that 

 characterise man's treatment of subject animals, it is ob- 

 viously the duty, and it should be the privilege, of the edu- 

 cated or cultivated classes to disseminate as widely and as 

 speedily as possible among the uneducated or imperfectly 

 educated classes a proper knowledge of animal character, and 

 of the grounds on which humanity to our lower fellow- 

 creatures is to be commended or enforced. Information of a 

 suitable kind may be diffused, the systematic teaching of 

 man's moral duties towards other animals may be inculcated, 

 in a great variety of ways, including the following : 



1. In infant and other schools. 



2. In school books for these and higher schools. 



3. In all classes of schools between ordinary schools and 

 universities. 



4. By public lectures in all towns and villages. 



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