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 ¬you must surely see how very much they suffer; andean we answer for this abuse to a benevolent Creator, who gave them only for our use ? have they not the same feelings and the same sense of injuries with ourselves, and could you be happy upon this tour of pleasure and satisfaction if you were enjoying yourself through the pain and affliction of any of your own kind V ¬" Certainly not," he answered, " because I should be invading human privileges; but ani- mals have none that the law recognises, and why should individuals run before the law, which defines all duties and protects all rights ?" " Is it possible then," / hastily replied, " that such a country as your father described to me can be so shockingly misgoverned?" " To that again," re-plied. Cathmor, " I can only repeat, that it is not for a subject to be wiser, nor more humane, than the legislature which prescribes his rules of action; and if, whenever the laws were silent, or appeared to us to be defective, we were to con- sider such supposed defects to be national mis- government, ¬ /n