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SOLE USE OF MAN*. “ This monstrous faith of many made for 
one,” says Southeyt, “ seems rather unreasonable. — Made for thy 
use, tyrant that thou art, and weak as thou art tyrannical!” ‘ Will 
the unicorn be willing to serve thee, and abide by thy crib 1 Canst 
thou bind him with a band in the furrow, or will he harrow the 
vallies after thee 1 Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a 
hook ] will he make a covenant with thee ] wilt thou take him for 
a servant] wilt thou bind him for thy maidens]’ Made for thy 
use, indeed, when so many seem to have been made for thy punish- 
ment and humiliation !” 
It really does appear almost unnecessary to refute such an as- 
sumption, that every animal but man was created principally for 
the use of man; yet so firmly do many persons believe this, that 
if they see an animal which, in their philosophy, appears useless, 
they wonder why it was created; and the supporters of this doc- 
trine pretend to nothing more or less than that God told them so. 
This attempt to impugn our holy writings, because they do not 
understand them, and all to charge them with their own iniquity, 
is impious : and thus every atrocious torturer of the dumb creation, 
in the shape of an experimenting vivisector or brutal driver, in- 
dulges in his malignity, and then pleads that they were created 
for their will and for their pleasure. “ The charter given to man,” 
says Dr. Drummond, “ invests him with the privilege to reign — 
not with authority to tyrannize; such a charter as a wise and 
powerful monarch would give to his vicegerent to govern with 
righteousness and mercy; and, though amply empowered to con- 
quer and subdue, and to tame, he has no privilege from heaven to 
go forth, like a demon of destruction, wantonly and unsparingly to 
slaughter and destroy. The indulgence to use is not to be misin- 
terpreted into a liberty to abuse the gifts of Providence. We may 
pluck the fruit, but not hew down the tree. We may urge the 
courser, but we may not strain his sinews until they snap asunder. 
Mari s 'powers have their limits, and animals have their rights .” 
Let any man of sense, after reading the 104th Psalm, that beau- 
tiful and sublime descant on the creation, ask of his own under- 
standing, on what principle can it be believed that the all-wise 
Creator formed such an infinite variety of creatures only to furnish 
subjects to gratify the cruel and destructive propensities of man ] 
The following anecdote is very apposite to this subject : “ How 
thankful we ought to be to a bounteous Providence, who has created 
all things for us richly to enjoy, ” said a reverend divine, at the 
last great city dinner, whilst sumptuously regaling upon crimped 
cod and oyster sauce. “ The beasts of the earth, the fowls of th6 
air, and the fishes of the sea, were all created for the use of man.” 
* See Genesis, chap, i, verses 25, 26, 27, 28. f See The Doctor, vol. iv. 
