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sake of keeping fashion ? Do they do anything to prevent the massacre of seals for food ?
I am sure, however cruel a man may be, his heart is destined to thrill, if he spares some time to see such cruel butchery as the sealcubs who lie moaning and whining and who cry by the side of their massacred dames, being knocked at the head if big enough to give their furs any value, and if too small to be worth the skinning, being left about without any mercy whatsoever. These brutal actions are surely the outcome of brutality practised in getting food-stuffs. Those who use vegetable food will not permit such things to be done. Let us be true in all our undertakings to make humanity prominent over brutality, to realize the interest of everything, not that of man only. Man is the master of the accessible world. He should therefore, not be partial to his own species and tyrannical in his government but look to the interests of every being, having in view its comparative merits. Impartiality and true justice are one of the steps leading up to spiritual perfection. Those who aspire even after the perfect knowledge of material things should be spiritually perfect. It is customary now-a-days to practise vivisection, for the advancement of physiological science but I hold that, the knowledge of that subject attained
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