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THE USE OF ANIMALS

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 28, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 35, No. 35.

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THE USE OF ANIMALS.

Vegetarian Magazine.
“WHAT are all the animals created for?” asks the flesh-eater.
Bless your egotistic soul! to enjoy this beautiful earth, just like yourself. If you do not believe this, read some of the recently published works on the psychology of animals. Some animals even invent playthings for their children, just as you do. Think also for a moment what a cheerless world this would be without the sound of wings or melody in the air; without the shimmering beauty of the finny folks in the brooks and streams; without the busy hum of the “yellow breeched philosopher” in the clover; without, in fact, the musical voices of field and wood, and the exquisite beauties of form and coloring, in which sentient life enters and clothes itself, not to mention our more intimate friends in fur and feathers!
It would truly seem that all these manifold forms of life, if made for man, were to contribute to his higher, not his lower, nature; to the poet, not to the beast, that is in him.