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Rev. Caesar Otway

[O.C.; Terrance O'Toole]

The Intellectuality of Domestic Animals

Dublin University Magazine, Chamber's Edinburgh Journal

[1840] Rev. Caesar Otway, "The Intellectuality of Domestic Animals, Being the Substance of a Lecture Delivered Before the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland, February 27, 1840," Dublin University Magazine 15 (1840-May) 495-515; [Also published in Chamber's Edinburgh Journal 9 (1840-May) 156-157; First Separate Edition: Intellectuality of Domestic Animals (Dublin, 1847); Google Books: Online Library of Free eBooks; Page references: Dublin University Magazine.

What, I say, has perpetuated the tyranny of man over the inferior animals but bad education. The vicious trainings of the nursery, in the first instance; then the kitchen; then the stable yard; and when Master Tom is grown in obstinacy, cruelty, and mischief, too bad to be borne at home, then comes a public school to case-harden the youth in all his tyrannical propensities; and so in due course he becomes a reckless man, hunting, shooting, fishing, cock-fighting, and in all his sports abusing the creatures of God. (514-515)

If this my lecture does no other good, it will do well in recommending to your perusal—and as it is not dear, to your purchase, a treatise on the rights of animals, and man's obligation to treat them with humanity, by our own amiable townsman, Dr. Drummond, whose book on this subject (THOUGH I CANNOT RECOMMEND HIS SERMONS), I can venture to say, is learnedly, feelingly, and persuasively written, and quite free from any taint of his peculiar tenets. (515)

The editor of the Dublin University Magazine includes an introduction as well as numerous anecdotes and other passages from letters and books illustrating many of the Rev. Caesar Otway's lecture on The Intellectuality of Animals—Dublin University Magazine 15 (1840-May) 495-515;

"Remarks of the late Rev. Caesar Otway, in his lecture on the Intellectuality of Domestic Animas, before the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland, some years ago, deserve attention."—Charles Dickens, Cat Stories, 1862

Signed "O.C."; occas. pseud. "Terence O'Toole"—Princess Grace Irish Library Monaco, Life of Rev. Caesar Otway.