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THE VOICE OF HUMANITY. 
which we have, independent of the bond of common humanity, 
much fellow-feeling; for the very object of our profession is, to 
ease the pain and prolong the enjoyment of our dumb slaves. 
At the end of the year these pamphlets are collected. This is 
the second volume. We heartily recommend it to the perusal 
and patronage of every one whose professional fame and pros¬ 
perity must have humanity as its firmest basis. 
The following extract from an essay, by J. D. Parry, M.A., 
will give a fair sample of the spirit and ability with which the 
cause of humanity is advocated. 
“ Again :—When we venture to allude to the cruelties attend¬ 
ant on cock-fighting, bull-baiting, and similar atrocities, we are 
told, ‘ These are the amusements of the lower orders; they 
have as much right to engage in these amusements as persons of 
rank have in theirs ; and you have no business to intermeddle 
with them.’ We admit their right to be equal—but what if we 
deny the right of either? The objectors know, in their con¬ 
sciences, that they are placing the argument in an unfair, an ill- 
natured light. We object not to these exhibitions, because they 
are the amusements of the lower classes, but because we lcnow 
these amusements (!) to be connected with the most disgusting 
and revolting cruelties. Amusements of the lower classes! 
Why, there are scores of amusements for the lower classes to 
which the advocates of rational humanity offer no one objection. 
‘Amusements!’—for whom?—to w'hat description of beings, 
whether they move in the higher or lower ranks of society, can 
wanton cruelties become amusements ? Can rational, can Chris - 
tian men, find amusement in the writhings and agonies of a tor¬ 
tured animal? Oh, thou merciful, thou perfect First Cause of 
all things ! were such men, indeed, created in thy image? 
“ One great defect in the efforts which have hitherto been 
made for the prevention of cruelty to animals, has, I humbly con¬ 
ceive, been that of not placing the duty of humanity in a suffi¬ 
ciently strong light. Once convince men that it partakes of the 
same nature as their duty to their fellow-creatures , and they will 
irresistibly be led to its adoption, and will regard cruelty with as 
much dislike in the one case as in the other. For instance :—it 
is stated that in cock-fights the birds have spikes fixed on 
their legs, with which they deeply wound and lacerate each 
other. Now, suppose for an instant that in human prize-fights 
the combatants were armed with spiked gauntlets, with which, at 
every stroke, they jagged and tore each other’s flesh—who would 
stand still patiently to endure the sight ? Will any say, ‘ Oh ! 
but, in the first case, the combatants are only birds, and, there¬ 
fore, ’tis of little consequence what we do to them ?’ Is it so in 
