464 OPERATIONS—QUITTOR. 
to the reason of his readers than sought to enlist their feelings. The 
subject was, indeed, a wide one. Man has hitherto been too content to 
consider animals as something given absolutely to him to be treated 
according to his sovereign will or merest pleasure. He has not reflected 
that, when he was created lord of this earth, he was invested with a 
title which had its responsibilities as well as its privileges. 
