6 BIPEDS AND QUADRUPEDS. 



I have a twofold duty to perform — one to the cause 

 I have taken in hand, the other to the public ; and, 

 independent of other considerations, I feel shall best 

 advocate that cause by speaking of such acts and 

 jDursuits with justness and impartiality, and measur- 

 ing the quantum of their demerits (where such 

 exist) by the standard that a personal participation 

 in them has taught me to believe to be a true one. 



I have frequently heard a somewhat singular 

 hypothesis brought forward in excuse for unkind- 

 ness towards the brute creation, nam.ely, that " they 

 were sent for our use." It would ill become me, 

 on any occasion, to dispute, or perhaps enter into 

 discussion of, dogmas of a spiritual nature, and most 

 certainly I do not mean to enter on such spiritual 

 controversy here ; but a remark or two on such 

 matters, where they bear directly on the subject in 

 hand, may I trust be held as allowable. 



It is quite true we are told that the great Creator 

 of all things said, on creating man, that he was to 

 subdue, and have dominion over, all other living 

 things : to what degree that dominion was meant to 



