[Illustration: Life-size. No. 1--Silkworm eggs. No. 2--Fourth-stage Worm. No. 3--Pupa in Cocoon. No. 4--Cocoon. No. 5--Male Moth. No. 6--Female Moth. No. 7--Unspun Silk. No. 8--Raw Manufactured Silk. No. 9--Manufactured Silk.] ANIMALS' RIGHTS. That there is pain and evil, is no rule That I should make it greater, like a fool. --_Leigh Hunt_. Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels. --_Wordsworth_. "A good man," said Plutarch, "will take care of his Horses and Dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service." The organs of sense, and consequently feeling itself, are the same as they are in human creatures. I can't imagine how a man not hardened in blood and massacre is able to see a violent death, and the pangs of it, without concern.--_Bernard de Mandeville, 1723._ However we may differ as to speculative points of religion, justice is a rule of universal extent and invariable obligation. See that no brute of any kind, whether intrusted to thy care or coming in thy way, suffer through thy neglect or abuse. Let no views of profit, no compliance with custom, and no fear of the ridicule of the world, even tempt thee to the least act of cruelty or injustice to any creature whatsoever. But let this be your invariable rule everywhere, and at all times, to do unto others as, in their condition, you would be done unto.--_Humphry Primatt, D. D., 1776._ But a full-grown Horse or Dog is, beyond comparison, a more rational, as well as more conversable animal than an infant of a day, a week, or even a month old. But suppose the case were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not, Can they _reason_? nor, Can they _talk_? but, Can they _suffer_?--_Jeremy Bentham, 1780._ Animals are endued with a capability of perceiving pleasure and pain; and from the abundant provision which we perceive in the world for the gratification of their several senses, we must conclude that the Creator wills the happiness of these his creatures, and consequently that humanity towards them is agreeable to him, and cruelty the contrary. This, I take it, is the foundation of the rights of animals, as far as they can be traced independently of scripture, and is, even by itself, decisive on the subject, being the same sort of argument as that on which moralists found the Rights of Mankind, as deduced from the Lights of Nature.--_Thomas Young, 1798._