Madame Schwartz, an Anglo-Swiss, living in Rome, smocked at the
cruelty to animals habitual amono. Southern races, translated a little tract on the subject into Italian. She submitted it to the censor, who returned this reply The little work has many inaccuracies. It supposes that humanity towards animals is a Divine precept. 1t supposes that there exists in animals a right which man ought to respect, and it supposes that to be a good Christian one ought to be compassionate towards the beasts. The mode in which the author proceeds to prove his theme makes manifest that he has recourse only to the Bible, and to this interpreted ac- cording to his caprice." Clearly the Papacy conceives that it has a special revelation enjoining inhumanity to animals. For if its revelation agrees with that of the Bible, what need to remark that the proof is inaccurate because drawn from that alone Permission to publish was refused.
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