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Erza Sampson

Brief Remarker on the Ways of Man

Of Cruelty to Brute Animals

[1818] Ezra Sampson, "Of Cruelty to Brute Animals," in Brief Remarker on the Ways of Man: or Compendious Dissertations, Respecting Social and Domestic Relations and Concerns, and the Various Economy of Life; Intended, and Calculated, More Especially, For the Use of Those in the Common Ranks of American Society (New York, 1818; Google Books: Online Library of Free eBooks.)

Mark this!—There is no worse sign, in children, nor any thing more necessary to be nipt in the bud, than a strong propensity to exercise cruelty upon the brute creatures within their power. It was the sport of Nero's boyhood, to implae flies upon the point of a needle; of his manhood, it was the sport, to inflict every kind of torture upon his fellow beings.