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ANIMAL SUFFERINGS. stand: The experience of our five

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their being, and therefore in! harmony with the eternal purpose. They do not abuso their life; they vicor, know nothing of our

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Honkes does not preclude the pos sibility that other organisms are differenently equipped. for the Mankind's Limited. Under business of life. Is it not the nothing of avarice or mallco, or case that man has grown through discontent, nothing of social and the ages to dopond so much upon moral hutiger, which in humani his powers of reflection and "de-boings is novor apponrud, . I have boon roading a most duction that lio has to a great ox- Though man, has, in the words! Interesting book. "The Soul of an tont lost the use of those sonsos, of the Preacher, sought out many! Animal," and now write in to which are often found to exist in inventions of the hope of escaping; sponse to an appeal for something a much grostor stato of offioluncy the haunting senso of vaulty and on above subject, says "Inter- among savage ruso? If our care nothingness, yet he clings to the protor in the Belfast Weekly wore sharp enough, writes, Pro- the illusion of the exclusive News, Suffering and sin, people, fasuor Huxley, wo should hear magnifleum The old idon that Boom to imagine, are the penalty sigh and groans of pain from animals were created for man's wo pay for boing human beings, Animals, thousands of timou a benefit has yielded very slowly and the one is result of the other, minuto like those hoard

by to porception of the fact that Animals are of course sinless, Danto at the gatos of hull. May ovary living creature is a life in they hold, and therefore there is no reason for them to suffer, and not birds and animals bo as wise itsolf, existing not for our ende in their world as we in ours? and gains at all, but as a soparate so, it is maintained, they do not suffer, because if they did their} It is now well known that the note in the harmony of the whole put theory of the Divine purpose in intellectual life of animals has universe. Does not this

boun greatly under-vivisection out of court? I rond fa would to upeal. Is it not hitherto

or falsely in in a cutting from the Scotch trange that such people will pay estimated physicians high feos to prevent terpreted. This was because Pross that in a certain district it was made from philo had beon agrood to wage war in their case thisDivino punish start mont?" Perhaps, howover, the sophical theories in which the against farm pests on a larger strongest proof that they do not true position of mon and animals scale than last year, Evidently bollove in this doctrine that ani-

was misunderstood, rather than man alone has the right - to malu, boing sinless, cannot suffor, from impartial, unprejudiced ob monopolled the fruits of the the inostimablo Is that many of them join Horvation and appreciation of arth, and the RS.P.C.A., prosecuto cab Nature itself. It can be shown service which birds and animals. drivers for cruelty, disapprove of by well-authenticated examples ronder mankind in the schemes ignored! vivisuotion! Those who honestly and facts that the intellectual of Nature is quite bollove that birds and animals de activities, faculties, feelings of Another cutting tells how a cam- not suffer acutely can know a man are foreshadowed in the paign against solutely nothing about them, or animal mind. Animals both know started in many country districts ignore and misunderstand the and practise fundamental laws during the war, and the Church THE OIL YOU USE IN YOUR CAR ways in which the animal work and arrangements of the social alsó "did her bit" by shaving or express its fooling of pain and state of slavey and caste, of do- scraping away the huge masses misery. They whose animal-mestic economy, education, sick of ivy from her towers, long the knowlodge is confined to those nursing. They build wonderful foundation which have been domesticated, structures for themselves, and parrows' nosis. can know little of the struggle hold assomblas, oven courts of latest potato crop was riddled for life, and the cure for their justice which try offenders. It with pests, and only lit for pigs! young: the vigilance and tho would not be too much to aflirmi So swallows are killed by the courage and devotion required of that the majority of mankind thousand on migration in some animais which are lending have no knowledge, no suspicion parts of the Continent, and thon natural, wild lives. Birds and oven as to what sort of creature there is observed an alarining anuals in common with man.an-animal really is. Mon laugh spread of germ diseases propagat. suffer morally through their at-ut the idea that birds and beastsed by the insect world, which tachments, appropriating separate may have souls, but it is a quite birds keep in chock. individual things to themselves. ancient habit to laugh at what is Birds thus suffer surely from the not understood. As a well-but ones live in communion with death of their mates, and may be known man of science writes: our furred and feathered noigh- forestalled in respact of their Soul is a natural phenomenon. bours, many of them so beutiful. chuson nosting-place. or their If the human soul lives. for all o friendly, so like ourselves in food supply, as human beings eternity we must grant the same divers way, if we would only let Hometimes pro. Rabbits caught immortality to the souls of the them bo. Shall we an each of us in wire stares, with swollen heads higher animals, from whom man and bulging oyes, are a disgrace to is distinguished not by a special tho hatan specios, but they fetch kind of soul but by a highur more money in the British market degree of psychic activity. than those which have been shot i

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LIFE IS THE SAME,

NTRIFTOWN Was

of thousands of

Rosuli:

We pass this way but once

the

passes ul. say, "I have lived my life as a true Lord of ervation, taking tall from the captivity and suffering of every creature that had not my strength and cun- ning." or shail wu rather paus -AH life, an Biz, Oliver Lodge with the thought. "God forgive says, must be the same; we can-mo if I have given moro pain not have one kind of life for mon than I could help to any sentiont and anothor kind for birds and thing? animals. The fact that we possess ethical values of right and wrong

The cruelty thus involved does not scom to alfout the mentality of the average human being. has actually buen held that, man's unjust treatment in this world is a reason in favour of his Immortality; and as animals do not suffer such, therefore thoir a moral sunse--does not seem being immortal is untenable to constitute a very definite line Such a theory insults one's of demarcation between human indeed, and animal life, since that many reason. Others hold. that the sufferings of birds and human beings are devoid of a animals are merely rollection of moral sense the recent war only of too plainly proved! We may not the imagined Bonsations mortals; but as Voltaire some know precisely what emotion whore says, it is aburod to think prompts a monkey to jump over- that God has given animals board to save & drowning com organs_of_fooling in order that rade, or a bird to food a littlu orphan-bird-but-wa-cannot-deuy they may aut fool

that the motivos at work are moral. Is it not obviously a WE HAVE OUR LIMITS.

which makes of guilt 201180 As wa meditato upon all the animals sneak away when they enigmas of the animal world of have done something which, how which we can offer. no soluti never taught, they consider wrong? let us remember that our five Could an inhabitant of Mars, as sensos have their limits, and that he contemplated our habits and boy and these we'really here know actions, be able to judge whether nothing. Our knowledge is the we possessed a moral sense? Yet frait of a limited experience, this is just what many worthy which is not the same in every peoplo profess they can do as re-

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what

uthors animais do not appear to have any conception of think, 500, hear, tasto. isconception of our religious valuos, impossible. How different the yot primitive man was, in the universe must appeur to poet, same case, and to him the artist, scientist, rustic labourer majority of relivious folk ascribe Bavage: yot wa dare to believe the possession of a soul. The lives that we can realise what birds and activities of birds and animals are in accordance with the law of and animals foel, think, under.

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