It is man’s nature to live together in families and tribes, and cities and nations, and therefore men have learned to prize those qualities in each other which make social life happiest and best. Of these qualities, one of the most important is sympathy—fellow-feeling. If a man had no fellow— feeling, we should call him "inhuman"; he would be no true man. We think so much of this quality that we call a kind man "humane’—that is, man-like in his conduct, first to other men, and afterwards to all living things. If you are cruel to animals, you are not likely to be kind and thoughtful to men; and if you are thoughtful towards men, you are no likely to be cruel and thoughtless towards animals. This is why the wise man of old wrote, "The merciful man is merciful to his beast. \