The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-11-14
from the Gentleman's Magazine.]
FUTURE LIFE OF ANIMALS.
LIFE.
IN JEssR's scENEs NE TALEs or COUNTRY

IN JEssR's SCENES AND TALES OF COUNTRY
Some beautiful instances are given of the
gratitude, attachment, and affection of anI-
mails, to which we refer our readers. When
we consider these examples of Glove strong
as death" showing itself in the animal crea-
circumstances of attachment as indepen-
dent of any selfish motive as it is possible
to imagine, as pure, as strong, as are eiIhei
20 be met with in reality or teigned in fable
land when we compa e such feelings with
the kindred ones thai we meet with among
manklnd-whenwe acknowledge their strong
resemblance, and then add that it is for the
possession and exercise ofsueh feelings that
We raise our humble claim TO be formed in
likeness of the divine image-when we add
that in his worst and lowest form. in his most
brutal, degraded, dishonest, selfish character
man still claims to himself to have sprung
from an inmortal seed, how can we wish to
deny the sam gift of mercy 10 the lowller
servants of the Deity, 10 hehumhler lenanis
OF his love, TO the grateful and contented
pensioners on his p~aterhal charity? For man
there is appointed a future world, in which
the spirits Of the just msy rejoice, aud the
emoFse of the goddess and impenlteni may
be the sole subject of their eternal shame;
bun can there be supposed no other worlds
in the countless ~multitudes Of the heavenly
boasts, that may be the future habitallon OF
the innocent creatures that have spent their
little lives in tbis2 May not there sthe half
reasoning elephant" be found, who has had
his faculties so much improved and enlarged
by his acquaintance with mankind? May
not there the noble horse, mans servant, OF
the dog, his faithful and sagacious compan-
ion, be permittedto prolong their lives. which
have been so elevated and improved by their
fellow-creatuEes here upon earth? Is il
wrong TO suppose that there can be no future
compensation for the infections Of cruelty,
no enjoyment of freedom after a tyrannous
and incessant bondage, no blassingsof reposc
after a wre.ched life worn out under the OPP
preston Of creatures tar lower, far more bru-
tai and beslial than lhemselyes2 Who would
not wish this TO be, and. wishing, who would
not believe it true? The Cre1tor seems, by
bestowing on some animals an instinct TO at
tach themselves TO man, to have intended
through this to improve and soften and ele-
yate their nature. They learn to look to
man as their protector, and also their teach
err; they watch his movements; they even
anticipate his desires; they partake his en-
ioyments; they share his sorrows; 9hey re-
ioica In his presence; the grieye for his de-
parlure; they feel for him in sickness, and
they lie down by him in death. The longer
we associate with men, (the cohesion is sad
but true, the larger we must spread the land
soaps that is 10 exhit them to Us in those va
nous points Of view that call out cur surprise,
our sorrow, Of our Indignation; the m37e
knowledge sc possess, and The more famili
afiiy we cultivate with the animal creation,
the mors we are delighted with their instinct
i've virtues, and the more we are invited TO
train them to a wider sphere Of usefulness,
and to call forth their dormant powers into
activity. We have long, very long, consid-
cred that there is no stronger and surer tok-
en- of an aniable and good disposition than
the love of the company of children. As
age advances, we find our pleasure in theit
society still increasing, both for the natural
delight their age Of innocent enjoyment al
fords to Us, and for the contrast they lend +,
that other society which we once too much
frequented, and TOO ardently enjoyed; which
We spread outour most gtitieriug fascination.
to gain, which we exhausted our best resour-
ces 10 e~nliven, On which we lavisiied our
warnest affections, which we trusted will
our choicest hopes, and which replid Us vii!
neglect, e~strangenent, undergraduate.
Often do we rec TO our minds bat pref
Is expression OF Goldsulga's, in the mos.
charming of all tales of fiction thai tlane ev
or made immortal, which cal 5 cMlilel
"harm!ess little men;'' and VIVA, we say ant
think of them, and what love we beslow OF
them, and what delight we have in their Sc
c;ety, we are wiling 1--WE speak for ourselv
esq TO p1r.ake also with thai part of The ani
NAL creation which is most Intimately known
to ~, aud with which, by habitof choice, VIZ
have the nearest connection. In an old min'
neart the passions of life should have left
home, in which they can no longer with pro
Priety I've; and then the recollectiOns InC
feelings of early lille, long banished and lon.
forgotten, will rush in again TO repair VIA
has been injured, to refresh what has beer
weakened, and to shed a soft and %evenin.
light upon the closing day This is the ca
thanas;G SO ardently TO be wished, and ibis a
lone can repair the broken harmony ofmtn's
nature, and render ipft for lmmoraiiiy il
that world of spirits TO which it is Fastening
How delightfully."- hasihc friend Of Fox* dc
scribed the innocent reereations that amused
the leisure and occupied the attention of tb
retired and aged statesman.
stThee at St. Anne;s 20 soon of care b~eguii'd,
PLAYFUL, sincere. aud artless as a child;
Thee. who could watch a birds nest ON the spra
Through the green leaves exploring day by day
Then Oft from grove to grove, from seat to sea-
With thee conversing in thy loV'd retreat,