Up to this point I have been speaking of human beings only, living under
improved conditions that man has made. What must be the horror, darkness
and emptiness of those living substances that are "inferior" to us? Do
you know and realize the suffering that we endure? Then let me, in
passing, urge this: Be also kind and considerate to our less fortunate
inhabitants of this earth, the "dumb" animals. Their feelings are quite
similar to ours. They have gone through the rougher parts of evolution
that gave to us our more useful organs and limbs. They are allied to us
in much the same manner as the members of our own species. They have
their painful aches and periods, their hardships and tortures, their
broken family ties and fearful abhorrence of death; their flesh is
tender and their skin is as delicate to them as ours is to us.
So let us "think twice," dear readers, before we deliberately harm any
of our humbler brothers and sisters that must inhabit this cold and
callous earth and live their lives under a great deal more tyranny and
injustice than we live ours.
We deliberately enslave and brutally treat the gentle horse.