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Excerpt from The Friend of Man: And His Friends, the Poets
There is just now in the world, if I do not mistake, something like a conspiracy, (having its headquarters between the foot of the Rue d'ulm in Paris, and the Brown Institute in London), to make our poor canine friends dreaded, disliked and despised. I shall not dwell on this disagreeable phase of human ingratitude, but begin at once to show that if men of Science, blinded over their microscopes, see in Landseer's Member of the Humane Society, and in Grey Friar's Bobby only so much bone and tissue valuable for purposes of research, the Poets, who resemble for lucid vision the young-eyed cherubim, behold in those humble forms, Courage, Patience, Faithfulness unto death and after death, - qualities than which the loftiest soul, enthroned in the human form divine hath none nobler. It is to despise these to despise the dog who manifests them and this is exactly what, (it is to be feared) these wise fools and foolish wise men are doing at this day.
Let us begin at the beginning. What are the earliest literary and artistic traces of the relationship between dog and man ?t We may pursue them in the following chapters.
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