II. The Golden Verses 294 III. The Buddhist Canon 295 IV. Ovid 299 V. Musonius 303 VI. Lessio 305 VII. Cowley 308 VIII. Tryon 309 IX. Hecquet 314 X. Pope 318 XI. Chesterfield 320 XII. Jenyns 322 XIII. Pressavin 324 XIV. Schiller 326 XV. Bentham 327 XVI. Sinclair 329 XVII. Byron 331 PREFACE. At the present day, in all parts of the civilised world, the once orthodox practices of cannibalism and human sacrifice universally are regarded with astonishment and horror. The history of human development in the past, and the slow but sure progressive movements in the present time, make it absolutely certain that, with the same astonishment and horror will the now prevailing habits of living by the slaughter and suffering of the inferior species--habits different in degree rather than in kind from the old-world barbarism--be regarded by an age more enlightened and more refined than ours. Of such certainty no one, whose _beau idéal_ of civilisation is not a State crowded with jails, penitentiaries, reformatories, and asylums, and who does not measure Progress by the imposing but delusive standard of an ostentatious Materialism--by the statistics of commerce, by the amount of wealth accumulated in the hands of a small part of the community, by the increase of populations which are mainly recruited from the impoverished classes, by the number and popularity of churches and chapels, or even by the number of school buildings and lecture halls, or the number and variety of charitable institutions throughout the country--will pretend to have any reasonable doubt.