We  are  coming  to  sympathize  with  the  animals,  and  Queen
Victoria  contributes  money  to  a  hospital  for  the  succor  of  de-
cayed old  gentlemen  and  lady  cats.  By-and-by  royal  hearts
may  widen  to  include  men  and  women  evicted  in  Ireland,  or
— worse  fate^not  evicted  from  Whitechapel.  The  spirit  that
defended  the  slave-trade  now  finds  its  last  ditch  bdiind  the
text,  The  poor  ye  have  with  you  always.  But  a  new  sympathy
rises  again,  like  that  which  declared  that  the  poor  should  be
free  of  the  slave-trade  and  slavery,  and  declares  that  the  poor
shall  be  freed  from  starvation  of  body,  mind,  and  soul.  Slave-
trade,  slavery,  poverty;  the  form  varies,  but  against  them
all  runs  the  refusal  of  the  human  heart  to  be  made  happy  at


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the  coat  of  the  misery  of  others,  and  its  mathematical  knowl-
edge that  its  quotient  of  satisfactions  will  increase  with  the
snm  of  the  happiness  of  all.
