Considering, however, the very great stress which is laid in the present day on the subject of animal suffering by so many amiable and excellent people, one or two remarks on that matter may not be superfluous.

To those who accept the belief in God, the soul and moral responsibility; and recognize the full results of that acceptance--to such, physical suffering and moral evil are simply incommensurable.

To them the placing of non-moral beings in the same scale with moral agents will be utterly unendurable.

But even considering physical pain only, all must admit that this depends greatly on the mental condition of the sufferer.

Only during consciousness does it exist, and only in the most highly-organized men does it reach its acme.