The teacher can tell the child that if it is necessary to take
life, it should be done as quickly and painlessly as possible. It is
cruel to inflict needless pain. Tell the child that our hearts warm
toward one who is kind, while we shrink from one who is cruel.
The child should be taught to remember that no living creature is here
from choice; all comes from the hand of God, and each has its special
work. We must also remember that a child when cruel is morally hurt, and
a moral hurt is greater than a physical one.
"We and the beasts are kin. Man has nothing that the animals have not at
least a vestige of; the animals have nothing that man does not in some
degree share. Since, then, the animals are creatures with wants and
feelings differing in degree only from our own, they surely have their
rights."--ERNEST THOMPSON SETON.
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Friends and Helpers, by Sarah J. Eddy
*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FRIENDS AND HELPERS ***
This file should be named frhlp10.txt or frhlp10.zip
Corrected EDITIONS of our eBooks get a new NUMBER, frhlp11.txt
VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, frhlp10a.txt
Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
Pages:
183
184
185
186
187
188
189
190
191
192
193
194
195
196
197
198
199
200
201
202
203
204
205