Livingstone tells of a wounded buffalo who was caught
up on the strong shoulders of another buffalo and carried to a place of
safety. The little mice in the meadow, and the birds upon the marshes,
have learned that to be strong they must keep together and help each
other. This is the law of all life.
When young people learn to think about the causes of pain and suffering,
and to respect the rights of animals, they will soon learn to respect
each other's rights and to render this mutual aid.
John Bright, a noted English statesman, said: "If children at school can
be made to understand how it is just and noble to be humane even to what
we term inferior animals, it will do much to give them a higher
character and tone through life."
There are men and women who would be thankful if they could blot out
some careless deed of their childhood. We may be sure that we shall
never regret the kind things we have done. George Eliot says:--
"It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very
much about our own narrow pleasures. We can only have the highest
happiness, such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide
thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as
ourselves. ...
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