Spirit of Humanity, and Animals' Friend: Extracts from the Enlightened and Benevolent of All Ages1899 - 286 pages |
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affection agony animals barbarous beasts benevolence birds blood brute bull baiting cartman cause civic fame compassion confined cruel cruelty CRUELTY TO ANIMALS death degree delight destroy disposition distress dogs duty epicurism evil fear feeling fellow creatures friends frogs gentle give groans habit hand happiness heart honor horse human inferior inflicted inhuman innocent insects JOHN HOWARD justice kill kind labor laws liberty lives mankind manner master ment mercy metempsychosis mild beer mind misery moral murder nature never o'er object pain passions person Pilpay pity pleasure Plutarch poor practice pride principle prison punishment Pythagoras quadruped race reason reign O'er savage seeds of death sensibility sentiment slavery slaves smile society soul species spirit sport suffering switchel sympathy tears temper tender thee thing thou tion torments torture treatment vice virtue whole wild William Wollaston wretch
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Page 45 - Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood : To the which place a poor...
Page 60 - Sacred to neatness and repose (the alcove, The chamber, or refectory), may die : A necessary act incurs no blame. Not so when, held within their proper bounds, And guiltless of offence, they range the air, Or take their pastime in the spacious field ; There they are privileged ; and he that hunts Or harms them there is guilty of a wrong, Disturbs the economy of nature's realm, Who, when she form'd, design'd them an abode.
Page 80 - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Page 60 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.
Page 80 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame ! how many bleed, By shameful variance betwixt man and man. How many pine in want, and dungeon glooms, Shut from the common air, and common use Of their own limbs...
Page 147 - I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low ; And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 57 - The heart is hard in nature, and unfit For human fellowship, as being void Of sympathy, and therefore dead alike To love and friendship both, that is not pleased With sight of animals enjoying life, Nor feels their happiness augment his own.
Page 76 - The strength he gains is from the embrace he gives. On their own axis as the planets run, Yet make at once their circle round the sun ; So two consistent motions act the soul; And one regards itself, and one the whole. Thus God and Nature link'd the general frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
Page 238 - Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude ; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude.
Page 108 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.