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money sets at defiance, more or less, the breach of 

 love, friendship, honour, kindness, and in bitter 

 truth, honesty itself. It predominates from the 

 extremest points of latitude and longitude, wherein 

 is found the native of civilised nations. If we go 

 to the " land of the cypress and myrtle," even in 

 that elysium, even there, "where all bvit the spirit of 

 man is divine," man is found in all his deformity of 

 selfishness, avarice, and disregard of the feelings of 

 aught but self ; how then, in a country where the 

 large majority of its inhabitants are, figuratively 

 speaking, born in trade, where the " make money 

 honestly if you can — if not, " &c., is inculcated into 

 the almost unbreeched urchin, are we to expect that 

 finer, or better feelings, can rise over the one para- 

 mount to all others, namely, the love of gain ? To 

 this we may attribute the leading cause of so much 

 cruelty to animals as is daily shewn by man. 



It would afford me much pleasure could I shew 

 that in all, and every case, the owner of an animal 

 suff'ers in a pecuniary way by ill using him. Could 

 I do so, neither I nor any other person need write 



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