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Bishop Butler affirmed that it was on the simple fact of a creature being sentient, i.e. capable of pain and pleasure, that rests our responsibility to save it pain and give it pleasure. There is no evading this obligation, then, as regards the lower animals, by the plea that they are not moral beings; it is our morality, not theirs, which is in question.

Miss F. P. Cobbe.

"Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false, never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you."

C. Dickens, in David Copperfield.