Editor's note / by Henry S. Salt -- 1. The humanitarian view : social conditions and the treatment of animals / by John C. Kenworthy -- 2. The Church's view : the Christian spirit and ideal / by Rev. A. L. Lilley -- 3. The scientific view : the claims of common life / by Josiah Oldfield -- 4. The ethical view : the duties of man to the lower animals / by Frederic Harrison -- 5. The secularist view : the kinship of life / by G.W. Foote -- 6. The theosophica view : the brotherhood of all that lives / by C.W. Leadbeater