If it be, clams and oysters as animal organizations think; possess the power to reflect and to judge of the moral quality of thoughts and actions, but we have no evidence that they possess any of these powers, and consequently we ought not to believe it.
Jacobs argues that there is no evidence that lower animals possess moral reasoning.
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The absurdity of this thing appears when we consider that we have a great abundance of hides, which are sold for a mere song, and are received back in manufactured articles.
In fact, the Chinamen were a quiet and peaceable folk, engaged in the more humble occupations of life.
They put their trust in and found their hopes upon a liberty regulated by law.
The human judgment is imperfect--and prescience is limited--hence any approach to perfection in the system itself, or in its administrative provisions, is a matter of evolution of slow growth--and of the survival of the fittest.
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