ON CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. BY JAMES MACAULAY, M.A. EDINBURGH : JOHN JOHNSTONE, HUNTER SQUARE, SUCCESSOR TO WAUGH AND INNES; WHITTAKER & CO., AND NISBET & CO., LONDON. MDCCCXXXIX. 204. ΤΟ THOMAS CHALMERS, D.D., LL.D., CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE FRENCH INSTITUTE, PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, THIS PRIZE ESSAY IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED. "A Prize of Twenty Sovereigns, offered to the Students of the Theological Faculty, for the best Essay on Cruelty to Animals,' was awarded to JAMES MACAULAY, M. A." ' Extracted from the Edinburgh University Prize List, 1839. [The above prize was given by Mrs GIBSON of Edinburgh, the benevolent foundress of endowments for the preaching of Annual Sermons on this subject in several of the principal towns of Scotland.] SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION-Statement of the subject, &c. Origin and extent of the dominion of man over the Motives and reasons for a kind and merciful use of the (A) Objective or external motives to humanity, drawn Arguments from the nature of their life-From the benefits derived from them-From their |