Note: This was taken from my rough book draft, so please excuse any typos.
The following was written by Caroline Earle White near the end of her life. It speaks deeply of the love and compassion she exemplified in her work.
“When it comes to the last hour of your life, do you not think if reasoning faculties are spared to you that it will be a great consolation to feel that you always protected the poor, the helpless and the unfortunate, and that you exercised a particular care toward those animals, who, unable to tell you of their sufferings and miseries, could only by an imploring look beseech your assistance. Would you not like to feel that there could be truly applied to you that passage in Pope’s universal prayer, slightly altered, where he says:
“Blest is the man whose kindly hear
Fees all dumb creatures’ pain,
To whom the supplicating eye
Is never raised in vain.
Peace from the bosom of his God,
My peace to him I give;
And when he kneels before the throne
His trembling soul shall live.”
CAROLINE EARLE WHITE
American Anti-Vivisection Society, “Journal of Zoophily,” Journal of Zoophily XXII, no. 12 (1913).
