"Answer. It is the universal recognition of Pig's wash and ground
barley, and the felicity of Pigs whose trough has been set in
order and who have enough.

"Question, What is justice in Pigdom?

"Answer. It is the sentiment in Pig nature sometimes called
revenge, indignation, etc., which if one Pig provoke, another
comes out in more or less destructive manner; hence laws are
necessary--amazing quantities of laws--defining what Pigs shall
not do.

"Question. What do you mean by equity?

"Answer. Equity consists in getting your share from the
Universal Swine-Trough, and part of another's.

"Question. What is meant by 'your share'?"

"Answer. My share is getting whatever I can contrive to seize
without being made up into Side-Meat."

I have slightly abridged this little extract and inserted it here to show
the sympathy which Mr. Carlyle had for the dumb brute.

One of America's great men, in a speech delivered not long ago, said,
"From Scotch manners, Scotch religion and Scotch whisky, good Lord
deliver us!"