RIGHTS OF ANIMALS, AND MAN'S OBLIGATION TO TREAT THEM WITH HUMANITY. BY WILLIAM H. DRUMMOND, D.D. M. R. I.A. AND HONORARY MEMBER OF THE BELFAST NATURAL Is not the earth With various living creatures, and the air Paradise Lost, viii. 369-375. Taught by the Power that pities me, LONDON: JOHN MARDON, 7, FARRINGDON STREET; SMALLFIELD AND SON, AND GREEN, NEWGATE-STREET. DUBLIN: HODGES AND SMITH. 1838. Soc 2255,1 Recently published by the Author, THE PLEASURES OF BENEVOLENCE, a Poem, in four books, with Webb and Chapman, Printers, Great Brunswick-street, Dublin. TO THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, Being in London in the year 1829, I had the honor of being requested by you to advocate the cause of your Society. Accordingly, on my return to Dublin, I delivered a Discourse entitled " Humanity to Animals the Christian's Duty," which, with numerous notes, was published at the desire and expense of a large and respectable congregation, by whom many copies were gratuitously distributed. My attention having being thus called to the subject, when you proposed a prize for the best Essay on "Man's Obligation as respects the Brute Creation," I was led by the advice of a friend, after some delay and hesitation, to become a competitor. The task was in perfect accordance with my own feelings; though I could not command success, there was some merit in trying to deserve it; and, at all events, no disgrace could attend a failure in so honourable a competition. Eventually the Essay was written, and |