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good in its own time; and, looking into futurity, sees tire same spirit work¬ 
ing on for the eventual elevation and happiness of the human race. 
It is, therefore, just the men of kindly disposition who are the active 
men of the world; while the selfish and the cold and skeptical, who have 
no love but for themselves, are its idlers. 
Constantly occupied with self, the egoist has no thought to spare for 
others. He refers to himself in all things, thinks of himself, and studies 
himself, until his own little self becomes his own little god. 
Oh, beware, therefore, of selfishness ! 
Kindness—Even to Animals. 
B A.H, when placed on the earth, received dominion over all things; but 
this power is a trust; and for it, as for all trusts, a day of reckon¬ 
ing will come, in which an account must he rendered by man of all that- is 
committed to him! The cruel persons who misemploy this power to abuse 
God's creatures, by inflicting needless pain on the dumb beasts under their 
charge, must reasonably expect that what measure they mete shall be meas- 
ured to them again. 
There is another phase of this subject to be considered, also, and that 
is, the waste and loss incurred by cruelty to animals—if, indeed, we must 
here appeal to this motive of self-interest. 
Thousands of people make themselves poorer from this cause, and 
they richly deserve it. 
But, while the cruel man thus finds a speedy retribution for this 
brutality in its effect on his pocket, it pays to he merciful to animals, even 
as it pays to do what is right in all things. 
A man who is truly just and merciful will carry out the principle of 
justice and mercy wherever he is, and will he considerate of the comfort of 
everything in his keeping. 
The gentle Cowper, the poet of humanity, declares: 
