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5. From the pulpit, in the shape of sermons. 



6. By offering public prizes for 



a. Essays ; and for single 



fe. Acts of kindness, or for habitual humanity, to 

 particular kinds of animals. 



7. By public meetings. 



8. By animal shows of all kinds. 



9. By the multiplication of societies for the prevention 

 of cruelty and the dissemination of the principles of humane 

 treatment. 



10. By taking advantage of general literature, in the 

 varied shape of books, periodicals, pamphlets, tracts, or other 

 forms of publication, including : 



11. The circulation of all suitable books in all classes of 

 libraries, from those of infant or Sunday schools up to those 

 of universities or free libraries for the people. 



12. The prominent exhibition of pictorial placard- 

 mottoes at or in railway stations, market-places, stables, 

 kennels, slaughter-houses, byres, race-courses, riding schools, 

 and cab-stands. 



13. The most extensive gratuitous circulation of attrac- 

 tive pictorial cards, almanacs, serials such as the ' Animal 

 World ' or tracts among all classes of the less educated, 

 those classes who have more immediate charge of our do- 

 mestic animals. 



It is perhaps too much to expect any radical change in 

 opinion and practice in the present generation regarding 

 the treatment that animals have a right to expect at man's 

 hands. Our hopes naturally centre in the rising generation, 

 in the proper education of the young of both sexes in the 

 principles and practice of humanity to animals, in the appli- 

 cation of the grand old golden rule of Scripture to all living, 

 sentient creatures. What our children have to learn, what 

 they should be carefully taught, is that other animals, or at 

 least those with whom we have most to do, think and feel as 

 we do ; are affected by the same influences, moral or physical; 

 succumb to the same diseases, mental or bodily ; are elevated 

 or degraded in the social scale according to our treatment ; 

 may become virtuous and useful, or vicious and dangerous, 



