1. Thou shalt not kill any animal--from the meanest insect up to man himself. 2. Thou shalt not steal. 3. Thou shalt not commit adultery. 4. Thou shalt not tell anything false. 5. Thou shalt not drink any intoxicating liquor. The extension of this first commandment from the crime of homicide to the deprivation of life of any breathing existence, arose from their doctrine of the transmigration of souls, which they believed should continue ever in action, and, after release from one tenement of earthly configuration, enter into some other of a different species and order. In this incessant alternation--which was to be one of _ascent_ or of _descent_, according to the merits of the _body_, which the spirit had _last_ animated, and which was all considered as a sort of lustral crucible, for the refining of the vital spark against its reunion with the Godhead, whence it had originally derived--it is manifest that such tenderness for the entire animal creation arose from the apprehension of slaying some relation in that disguise.--Or, did we ascribe it to no higher motive than a sympathy with fellow-creatures, which, if not equally responsible, are at all events susceptible of anguish and of pain, this in itself should teach us to suppress all ebullitions of irreverent sarcasm, and, if we yield not our acquiescence, to extend to it at least our commiseration. “Pain not the ant that drags the grain along the ground, It has life, and life is sweet and delightful to all to whom it belongs.”[123] The _good works_ which they were _additionally_ enjoined to perform were classified under the two heads of _Dana_ and _Bavana_. By “_Dana_” was meant the _giving of alms_, and hence the whole fraternity were called _Danaans_ or _Almoners_.[124] By “_Bavana_” was understood the _thoughtfully pronouncing_ those three words, _Anuzza_, _Docha_, and _Anatta_: of which the first implies our liability to _vicissitude_; the second to _misfortune_, and the third our _inability_ to exempt ourselves from either.[125] The exposition of the terms _Tuath_ and _de_, as prefixes to _Danaans_, forming with it the compound Tuath-de-danaan, I shall reserve for a more befitting place. Meantime I hasten to redeem my “pledge” as to the elucidation of the import of the name _Hibernian_.