CHARLES.
And they are of great value. Their wool serves to clothe us—where should we find warm covering for our beds if there were no sheep?
WILLIAM.
What a good God we have!
EMILIA.
We ought to love him, because he has created all these creatures for us;—but I know not why we kill them, and then eat them up; it seems cruel.
DR. BARTLETT.
By no means. They were designed for us, for our food; if we were to let all the sheep live, they would soon grow so numerous they would die for want of pasturage.
EMILIA.
Then men do right, when they kill them?