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with the coolness of true courage face an enemy in 

 the field, for adventurous hazard in peculiar ways is 

 very much the effect of habit. Men being accustomed 

 to face all sorts of wild and ferocious animals, I make 

 no doubt does render them generally courageous, 

 for it accustoms them to face danger without flinch- 

 ing — the fundamental principle of animal courage. 

 The facing danger where duty calls on a man to do 

 so (if he does it, though appalled by its presence), 

 becomes moral courage, perhaps by far the higher 

 order, for the man shewing it may be depended upon 

 in any emergency, for he acts on principle — both 

 combined constitute the true hero. 



But though man facing his fellow-man, renders 

 him courageous in the best possible way, and facing 

 the denizens of the forest produces a similar attri- 

 bute in another ; it would be absurd to suppose that 

 baiting, and torturing one animal with others, or en- 

 couraging conflict, beast with beast, can have any 

 but demoralizing and brutal tendency, and posi- 

 tive effect, in producing such results on the minds 

 and acts of those engaging in such pursuits. If 



