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1776-May | review of "A Dissertation on the Duty of Mercy and Sin of Cruelty to Brute Animals, by Humphrey Primatt, (London, 1776)," Monthly Review 54 (1776-May): 415; Digitized by Google, Online at Google Books.

Duty of Mercy and Sin of Cruelty to Brute Animals

Humphrey Primatt

review, Monthly Review

MORALITY.

Art. 28. A Dissertation on the Duty of Mercy, and Sin of Cruelty, to Brute Animals.By Humphry Primatt, D.D. 8vo. 4 s. sewed. Cadell, &c. 1776.

A well-intended sermon on this subject was published about two years since, by the late Mr. Granger, vicar of Shiplake in Oxfordshire; and though sentiments of this humane kind cannot be too forcibly inculcated, yet it may be hinted, that a sixpenny sermon is more likely to be read by offenders against the dictates of humanity, than more bulky dissertations. The cruel are generally the ignorant vulgar, whose feelings ought rather to be artfully addressed, than their understanding complimented, by such learned and laboured deductions as this Gentleman has framed. The subject of humanity to animals lies in small compass.