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consolation to the latter, and certainly a very trifling, 

 if any plea in favour of the man : still, it proves that 

 all feeling is not lost in him ; and while that is the 

 case, all hope that time, reflection, and persuasion may 

 produce better conduct is not lost either. It is the 

 same as regards the other two causes of the animal's 

 sufferings ; but where they are brought on by an 

 absolute want of feeling, the case is hopeless, and, 

 in most instances, all that can be done is to pre- 

 vent any public exhibition of cruelty, harrowing to 

 the feelings of all but the brutish perpetrator of it, 

 and those in the same degraded class as himself. 



There is an ancient saying, and indeed idea, that 

 every Englishman's house is his castle ; to a certain 

 extent it, perhaps, is so, and the inference drawn 

 no doubt was, that if a man was legally installed in 

 his denominated castle, that no one could dispossess 

 him. He would, however, find that in these times 

 if the site of his boasted castle was wanted for a 

 railroad, his stronghold, if even impregnable to a 

 cannon ball, would be by no means so to an act of 

 Parliament — out he must go, " nolens volens ;" nor 



