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over every other animal ; but it is in mind only 

 his superiority consists ; in proof of which, render 

 him idiot, and he is seen in a state of pitiable 

 degradation far beneath the majority of those ani- 

 mals that his mind only enables him to cope with. 

 If, therefore, in point of mind he is so far their 

 superior, let him at least use its attributes so as 

 to render him in point of disposition their superior 

 also. How often, how far too often, do we see it 

 the reverse. 



I should say that the leading causes of suiFering to 

 animals are the four following. First, as the " head 

 and front" of offences of this kind, is the cupidity and 

 avarice of man. Secondly, the want of knowledge 

 of what really does occasion such suffering. Thirdly, 

 a morbid and contemptible vanity, that often produces 

 the infliction of suffering, from a desire to shew the 

 superiority of the animal we possess, or our own in 

 what we can do on, or with him, and lastly, and 

 let us hope more rarely, from a mind devoid of the 

 common feelings of humanity. Let no one fancy 

 that the man who wants humanity to one class of 



