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the meeting — based as they are upon the datum that “ igno- 
rance is the cause of most of the cruelty towards animals,” 
supposing they are so far well-grounded, appear to us to 
be of a much less practicable or workable nature. His 
notion is, 
Ci That the very grooms of this country are men who 
should be thoroughly acquainted, either by attending lectures 
or in some other way, with the formation and beautiful 
organisation of the horse ; and that they should not, in their 
own business, be ignorant individuals, as they too often are. 
In the operation, which they call trimming, or trimming up, 
and, as it were, making a horse look remarkably smart, every 
now and then you see a groom ignorantly removing those 
most useful appendages which nature has given the animal 
for its protection. You will see a groom removing the eye- 
lashes from a horse, for the sole purpose of making it appear, 
as it were, better to the eye; but nothing can be so inju- 
dicious — nothing can be so painful to the animal as being 
deprived of those very appendages which are so useful under 
a hot sun, and the very object of which is, to protect the eye 
from injury, subject, as it is, to the various influences of small 
insects, which would otherwise annoy it.” 
To the subjoined observations, coming from the Rev. 
R. Burgess, we feel the highest gratification in responding 
to while repeating here : — 
“ I cannot suppose that a man, (such as I have now de- 
scribed,) can understand of what materials an animal is 
made ; he cannot understand that the sufferings of these 
animals are as acute as those which we feel under similar cir- 
cumstances. There are unmistakeable proofs in the animal 
creation, that they are just as sensitive to pain as we are. 
Do we not see, if there be even a menace of punishment, 
they alter even in their very countenance ? Do they not fear 
like ourselves ? Do they not languish and die like ourselves ? 
And if this be the case, are we not responsible for all that 
amount of needless suffering which is inflicted upon the 
animal creation ; and shall we not — for I never fear to take 
this subject to the highest source, and make for it the highest 
appeal — shall we not be responsible to God for the abuse of 
those creatures which He has given for our use? (Loud cheers.) 
W ill any one make me believe, that God has taken care even 
for the birds of the air, and for the fow ls, and for the cattle upon 
a thousand hills — and that He means to pass by the trans- 
