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Excerpt from Angell Prize-Contest Recitations: To Advance Humane Education in All Its Phases; Compiled to Be Used in Entertainments Managed by Churches, Societies, Lyceums, Sunday Schools, Bands of Mercy, or Individuals Aiming to Establish Right Over Wrong, Kindness Over Cruelty
We are constantly in sight of numbers of dumb and help less animals which cannot Speak for themselves, although their needs and nervous sensibility are scarcely less than our own. They feel acutely the pangs of want, but cannot tell their needs in articulate language. They suffer and die, but cannot accuse their destroyers, nor tell their wrongs. Their gaunt forms, their pain-saddened eyes, their weary movements, their unnatural restlessness, speak, if we were quick to understand the pathetic language, of needs unsupplied, of hard tasks, of irregular care, of the indescribable irritations to which slaves, whether man or beast, are subject. It is better to reform these things by enlightening than by censure and accusation, for if people understand aright they will not be slow to act righteously. Knowledge is the angel which will unlock our virtues, and make us just to one another, and to every living creature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
