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78 tendencies. If, on the other hand, we saw the seed of goodwill, sincerity and friendship towards all beings, we are sure to reap a rich harvest of increasod goodwill and friendship. The Bible says, “Whatsover a man soweth that shall he also reap. He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it They have sown the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind."
Serious thought and sober reflection show that animal butchery is against human nature. These remarks of Francis Bacon are illuminating, “Nature has endowed man with a noble and excellent priociple of compassion which extends also to the dumb animals. Hence, this compassion has some resemblance to that of a prince towards his subjects." He further observes, “And it is certain that the noblest souls are the most extensively compassionate, for parrow and degenerate minds think that compassion belongs pot to them, but a great soul; the noblest part of creation is ever compassionate,"
Selfish and shortsighted people say, "Animals have no souls, therefore, there is nothing wrong in relishing their meat," This is a wrong and irrational approach to the real state of affairs. A compassionate cardinal has observed, "The ancients treated man of the rightless classes much as we treat apimals. Gladiators could be killed for sport and Galen and Celsus speak of the established practice of human vivisection on the persons of criminals, doubtless on the weighty ground of high benevolence." If the moderner feels and argues that the
