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James Lawson Drummond

Letters to a Young Naturalist

Humanity to Animals

[1831] James Lawson Drummond, "Humanity to Animals," in Letters to A Young Naturalist on the Study of Nature and Natural Theology (London, 1831; Google Books: Online Library of Free eBooks).

The want of humanity to animals, which is everywhere so glaring, cannot, I think, be a natural defect of the human mind, but is the offspring of a wrong education, and an unjust and arrogant conceit that man is the only being of any consequence in this world. (300)

I entertain some hope of yet seeing the time when one may express disapprobation of such inhuman brutalities, without being considered either foolish or ridiculous. (302)

A sermon by my brother, entitled "Humanity to Animals, the Christian's Duty, a Discourse by William Hamilton Drummond, D.D." published 1830, may be introduced here with advantage. (303)

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"In a very agreeable volume by the author of a popular work, 'First Steps to Botany,' occur the following excellent observations on an interesting topic, viz. Humanity to Animals, which we have much pleasure in laying before our readers" Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 12 (1831 Oct-Dec):172-183.