In Dr. C. J. B. Williams's interesting "Memoir of Life
and Work," recently published, there is contained a singularly absurd argument from Scripture for the absolute right of men to subject animals to any torture which they may think neces- sary in the interests of the human race. "Long before the divine permission to use animals for food (which was after the Flood), to man was given dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.' What is this 'dominion' but the subserviency of all animals to man's use, for all
proper purposes and for all times The primeval com- mandment to have dominion over animals, coupled with the Christian injunction, heal the sick,' shows that we are not merely permitted, bat absolutely enjoined, to make such use of animals as science points out for the advancement of the healing art." Such criticism is worse than childish. What would Dr. Williams say if any man argued that, because Deborah says, in the Book of Judges, "The Lord made me have dominion over the mighty," her divine authority ought to have been regarded by her in connection with the primmval command to be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, as not merely permitting, but enjoining upon her to enforce compulsory marriage on all the chiefs of Israel subject to her rule ?
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