. The educated horse : teaching horses and other animals to obey at word, sign, or signal, to work or ride : also, the breeding of animals, and discovery in animal physiology : and the improvement of domestic animals. Horses; Domestic animals; CHR 1854; PRO Rogers, Fairman, 1833-1900 (donor); PRO MacNair, John (autograph, New Orleans, March 24, 1855). 68 COMPARITIVE PHYSIOGNOMY human beings it is otherwise. They wish to be taken care of by others, and to be supplied with multitudes of things that are not necessary; and for this end they acquire artifi- cial appetites, such as the appetites for


. The educated horse : teaching horses and other animals to obey at word, sign, or signal, to work or ride : also, the breeding of animals, and discovery in animal physiology : and the improvement of domestic animals. Horses; Domestic animals; CHR 1854; PRO Rogers, Fairman, 1833-1900 (donor); PRO MacNair, John (autograph, New Orleans, March 24, 1855). 68 COMPARITIVE PHYSIOGNOMY human beings it is otherwise. They wish to be taken care of by others, and to be supplied with multitudes of things that are not necessary; and for this end they acquire artifi- cial appetites, such as the appetites for tobacco, tea, coffee, opium, and alcoholic stimulants. This perversion of self-love in man is from the perversion of the privilege of dependence, which is extreme at the moment he is born, which is again ex- treme at the moment of his departure from this world : it is from the perversion of his perfect dependence upon his parents for the supply of his bodily wants at the commencement of his lifs, and of his perfect dependence upon his Creator for those things which alone can satisfy the cravings of an im- mortal soul at the period of his transition into another state of existence. Between these two extremes of dependence there is abundant room for self-exertion, self-improvement, and. self-dependence, and there is occasion for the exercise of be- nevolence toward others when benevolence toward self has ac- complished its object. What then must be the depravity of man, when, instead of loving himself and taking care of him- self for the sake of his neighbor, he loves his neighbor in keep- ing for the sake of himself? Look at those who in all coun- tries oppress and enslave the bodies and souls of men, and at those who in their weakness and poverty exercise their ty- ranical selfishness in oppression of the inferior animals, and and you will see. The animal which the natural man resem- bles, viz., the ape, is selfish and disgusting in the The Lord is my shepherd ; I sh


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