John T. Prince, Board of Education, West Newton,
Mass. :
"As to killing animals before children, I quite agree '
with your association."
Rev. Dr. C. W. Leffingwell, editor of The Living Church,
Chicago, 111. :
'•I think it most undesirable to familiarize the minds of
the young with the sight of suffering and dying. Those •
whom it does not shock it will harden."
B. O. Flower, editor of The Arena, Boston, Mass. :
"It is difficult to conceive of anything more injurious «
to the child than allowing it to witness or engage in
experiments involving the infliction of pain or death on^
helpless animals. It is bound to blunt the finer sensibil-
ities and call out the savage in the child."
"Pain and death" are inflicted upon helpless creatures .
every day in thousands of homes, and the children see it,
hear it and feed upon the cooked and garnished flesh.
Has this any tendency to " call out the savage in the
child".-* Had it anything to do with creating the savage-
instinct previous to the birth of the child "i
Rev. Dr. H. W. Thomas, Chicago, 111., says:
" In all young minds and hearts should be cultivated a .
sacred reverence for life and the kindest feelings for every
creature capable of suffering pain. We should certainly
hope that the humane sentiment of our age will create a
public feeling so strong as to discourage and prevent
every form of cruelty and the shedding of blood in our '
public schools."
Why continue to do this work in our homes and set
228 THE FAT OF THE LAND.
before the children the result of the want of sacred rever-
ence for the life of the animal, where appetite is concerned ?
Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, rector of Trinity church, N. Y. :
"Children need to be taught lessons of kindness and
consideration for the creatures which we domesticate and
of which they make pets and companions."
Of what avail the teachings, if we slay and encourage
the children in eating the pets they have loved ?
Rev. E. E. Gordon, Sioux City, Iowa, says:
" Emphasis should be placed upon the sacredness of all
life."
Rev. Geo. K. Hoover, D. D., Chicago, III. :
"The infliction of pain or death upon a helpless creature
will most certainly pervert the moral nature of children.
Time was when people could lead a victim to the stake
and witness his agony with comparative complacency, but
a great many customs that once were not only tolerated,
but readily accepted, are now utterly banished from
society."
This being true, then we may look forward to the day
when the abattoir with its nameless horrors shall be
banished, farmyard slaughter cease and kindness be a
dominant, inborn characteristic of the race.
Frederick Harrison, Esq., London, England, says:
" I am surprised and shocked to learn that there can
exist schools of any kind where young boys and girls are
allowed to witness dissection of living animals under any
circumstances whatsoever. * * * i care not whether
anaesthetics are adequate or whether the dissection is of
dead animals ; both are revolting and deeply demoralizing to
children. And the enormity is increased where the animals
dissected are the companions of our daily life."
Auguste Compte, who was a philosopher as well as a
professor of science, taught that "the domestic brutes we
train to our service are in a sense admitted to our
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humanity, and he would not have the highest moral
teachers of the young defile themselves with the dissection^
even of the dead, as this was incompatible with the pro-
foundest reverence for human life."
Dr. George Ebers, Munich, Bavaria, says:
"The child knows its power over dumb creatures only
too well. To strengthen this knowledge would be useless
and injurious, for the child should be taught to respect
all living objects, and to remember that they were created
to enjoy life."
H. D. Lloyd, editor Chicago Tribune :
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
John T. Prince, Board of Education, West Newton,
Mass. :
"As to killing animals before children, I quite agree ' with your association."
Rev. Dr. C. W. Leffingwell, editor of The Living Church,
Chicago, 111. :
'•I think it most undesirable to familiarize the minds of the young with the sight of suffering and dying. Those • whom it does not shock, it will harden."
B. O. Flower, editor of The Arena, Boston, Mass. :
"It is difficult to conceive of anything more injurious « to the child than allowing it to witness or engage in experiments involving the infliction of pain or death on helpless animals. It is bound to blunt the finer sensibilities and call out the savage in the child."
"Pain and death" are inflicted upon helpless creatures . every day in thousands of homes, and the children see it, hear it and feed upon the cooked and garnished flesh. Has this any tendency to " call out the savage in the child"? Had it anything to do with creating the savageinstinct previous to the birth of the child "i
Rev. Dr. H. W. Thomas, Chicago, 111., says:
" In all young minds and hearts should be cultivated a . sacred reverence for life and the kindest feelings for every creature capable of suffering pain. We should certainly hope that the humane sentiment of our age will create a public feeling so strong as to discourage and prevent every form of cruelty and the shedding of blood in our ' public schools."
Why continue to do this work in our homes and set
before the children the result of the want of sacred reverence for the life of the animal, where appetite is concerned ? Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, rector of Trinity church, N. Y. :
"Children need to be taught lessons of kindness and consideration for the creatures which we domesticate and of which they make pets and companions."
Of what avail the teachings, if we slay and encourage
the children in eating the pets they have loved ?
Rev. E. E. Gordon, Sioux City, Iowa, says:
" Emphasis should be placed upon the sacredness of all life."
Rev. Geo. K. Hoover, D. D., Chicago, III. :
"The infliction of pain or death upon a helpless creature will most certainly pervert the moral nature of children. Time was when people could lead a victim to the stake and witness his agony with comparative complacency, but a great many customs that once were not only tolerated, but readily accepted, are now utterly banished from society."
This being true, then we may look forward to the day when the abattoir with its nameless horrors shall be banished, farmyard slaughter cease and kindness be a dominant, inborn characteristic of the race.
Frederick Harrison, Esq., London, England, says:
" I am surprised and shocked to learn that there can exist schools of any kind where young boys and girls are allowed to witness dissection of living animals under any circumstances whatsoever. * * * i care not whether anaesthetics are adequate or whether the dissection is of dead animals ; both are revolting and deeply demoralizing to children. And the enormity is increased where the animals dissected are the companions of our daily life."
Auguste Compte, who was a philosopher as well as a
professor of science, taught that "the domestic brutes we
train to our service are in a sense admitted to our
humanity, and he would not have the highest moral teachers of the young defile themselves with the dissection even of the dead, as this was incompatible with the profoundest reverence for human life."
Dr. George Ebers, Munich, Bavaria, says:
"The child knows its power over dumb creatures only too well. To strengthen this knowledge would be useless and injurious, for the child should be taught to respect all living objects, and to remember that they were created to enjoy life."
H. D. Lloyd, editor Chicago Tribune :