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those whom domestication has corrupted, the pairing is for life ; 
these attachments are mutual and strong, and shewn in a thousand 
endearing ways, while infidelity and ingratitude are rarely known, 
or else summarily punished.” Mr. Youatt has given us many 
pleasing anecdotes illustrating these moral affections, all tending to 
prove that the inferior animals have passions, feelings, and sensi- 
bilities and virtues, as well as the lordly creature man ; — that they 
have the conjugal, the parental and friendly affections strong and 
indomitable, even in torture and death. They are grateful to their 
benefactor ; and some of them, as the dog, would encounter every 
danger in his defence. 
We pass on to another portion of the successful Essay — “ The 
Sports of the Field.” “ Making life,” says Dr. Styles, “ the sacri- 
fice of mere amusement, and destroying unoffending and happy 
creatures without any higher motive, may be considered as indi- 
cating the first transition from a state of barbarism to a state of 
partial civilization.” Again : “ It is civilized man who has appro- 
priated to himself a certain portion of the earth as his domain — who 
is surrounded with luxury — who fears no invasion from ferocious 
animals, and whose are the quiet cattle browsing on a thousand 
hills ; — it is man, civilized, who looks with proud contempt on his 
savage brother of the woods, — it is he who determines not only 
that the stag shall die, but that it shall die in his presence, and for 
his amusement; it is he who pursues with inhuman delight the 
most timid creature that gambols in our fields : — yes ; they 
are not savages, but civilized men, who, with a troop of dogs and 
horses, as if in pursuit of some mighty depredator, some fearful ob- 
noxious beast, that had been devouring our flocks or scouring our 
hamlets, are hunting to death a poor little animal whose life one 
of their fair wives or daughters might crush with the pressure of 
her delicate hand.” 
After this prefatory declamation on hunting, not forgetting to 
have a hit by the way on hunting clergymen, he favours his readers 
with some instances of the barbarous effects of this favourite pas- 
time of joyous Old England, taken, he says, at random, from the 
newspapers; manufacturing from this authentic source a perfect 
pot-pourri of blood and murder. 
He says also that the training of hounds for the chase is accom- 
panied by many cruelties to the hounds themselves, as well as to 
other creatures, in order to reduce them to perfect obedience. 
“ They must be severely lashed, and initiated to their office by vari- 
ous barbarous rites. The young hounds are first made to follow a 
cat, which is dragged along the ground for a mile or two; at the 
end of which a badger is turned out, first taking care to break his 
teeth. Huntsmen flog their hounds while they feed them : eat or 
not eat, work or play, whipping is always in season. The hunts- 
