It becomes wearied even to misery, yet dares not rest.

And under a complication of these sufferings, it is at length overtaken, and often literally torn to pieces by its pursuers.
Hunting therefore does not appear, in the opinion of the Quakers, to be followed for any of those purposes, which alone, according to the original charter, give mankind a right over the lives of brutes.

It is neither followed for food, nor for prevention of injury to man, or to the creatures belonging to him.

Neither is life taken away by means of it, as mercifully as it ought to be, according to the meaning of the[12] great condition.

But if hunting be not justifiable, when examined upon these principles, it can never be justifiable in the opinion of the Quakers, when it is followed on the principle of pleasure, all destruction of animal-life upon this last principle, must come within the charge of wanton cruelty, and be considered as a violation of a moral law.
[Footnote 12: The netting of animals for food, is perfectly unobjectionable upon these principles.] SECT.