Kindness to Animals

A lion came to Adam with bright, joyous eyes—not fiery ones—and an elephant reached out its trunk to caress him. What changed?

Charlotte Elizabeth opens this 19th-century book with a garden where people and animals live in peace, then asks how cruelty and fear entered the world. Drawing on Scripture and creatures she has watched herself, she turns to the horses, dogs, birds and other animals people meet every day. Among them is Jack, a deaf and dumb Irish boy whose own hardships do not keep him from a tender interest in the creatures around him. The question is more than how to care for a pet: what does our treatment of animals reveal about the kind of rulers we are?

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