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from others, and then, because they soon become calm 

 where they ought not to have been at all ruffled, 

 make a merit of not contmuing to make brutes or 

 fools of themselves for hours, when they should not 

 have done so for one minute. I would as strongly 

 counsel a woman to refuse a passionate man for a 

 husband, as I would a maniac ; the only difference 

 between the two being, the aberration of intellect 

 of the one is continual, in the other as circumstances 

 call it forth. If therefore, uncontrolled temper in 

 man produces such dire effects to his fellow-creature, 

 what acts of brutality does it not often produce 

 towards objects under his absolute control ? 



Having made these preliminary and cursory re- 

 marks on the principal causes of the sufferings 

 that animals are exposed to, I will now more 

 clearly particularize the classes of persons the most 

 prone to inflict them, and will begin with those the 

 most actuated by their avarice to do so. At the, 

 head of these are a class now all but extinct, namely, 

 Coachowners. As a tolerably good four-in-hand 

 coachman myself, my driving propensities made me 



