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Thomas Moore


Source Documents1810 | Rev. Thomas Moore of Birmingham, The Sin and Folly of Cruelty to Brute Animal (Birmingham, 1810). [British Library Catalouge entry]

The Sin and Folly of Cruelty to Brute Animals

1810-Apr| review of "The Sin and Folly of Cruelty to Brute Animals; a Sermon, by Thomas Moore (London, 1810)," Critical Review 19 (1810-Apr), 433-4.

We wish that christian ministers would more often preach on this subject, and never let the year pass without delivering at least one sermon on the sin of cruelty to that part of the sensitive creation who want language to make known their wrongs. A great senator seems to think that cruelty to the brutes produces courage, and renders the character robust; but we believe it will be found that this species of cruelty is always accompainied by cowardice.…It may be reagarded as a general truth, liable to very few exceptions, that cruelty makes men cowards; and that men are alwys brave in proportion as they are humane. Let the advocates for bull-baiting and cock-fighting remember this.


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[1807-1837] Romantic Age
Byron-Shelly-Martin's Act

Animal Welfare-Animal Rights Activists-Advocates-Quotes
Against Cruelty to Animals
[1788-1824] Lord Byron
[1824] Clergyman of England
[1754–1832] George Crabbe
[1783-1853] James L. Drummond
[1778-1865] William H. Drummond
[1750-1823] Lord Erskine
[Romantic] Rev. John Hill
[1784-1859] James Leigh Hunt
[1782-1869] William Jerdan
[Romantic] Elizabeth Kent
[1754-1834] Richard Martin
[Romantic] Thomas Moore
[1762-1816] Rene Martin Pillet
[Romantic] John Budd Pitkin
[1770-1832] James Plumptre
[1749-1814] Samuel Jackson Pratt
[1792-1822] Percy Shelley
[1767-1831] Louis Simond
[1788-1860] Arthur Schopenhauer
[1770-1832] Priscilla Wakefield
[1759-1833] William Wilberforce



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Antiquity-Middle Ages
Ancient Animal Rights Law
Early Prohibitions-Middle Ages
[BCE-3rdc.] Mythical-Divine Origin; Antiquity—Classical Literature
[3rdc.-1485] Early Church Fathers, Old-Middle English Period

Renaissance
Early Anti-Cruelty Legislation
[1485-1660] English Renaissance

Enlightenment
Articles-Letters-Enlightenment
Pleas for Laws to Protect Animals
[1660-1689] Restoration
[1689-1745] Augustan Age-Pope
[1745-1785] Age of Sensibility

Romantic Age
Articles-Letters-Romantic Age
Modern Legislative Beginnings
[1785-1798] Burns-Cowper
[1798-1806] Wordsworth
[1806-1837] Byron, Martin's Act

Victorian Age
Articles-Letters-Victorian Age
Anti-Cruelty, Anti-Vivisection Laws
[1837-1876] Early Victorian Age
[1876-1901] Late Victorian Age

Early 20th Century
Articles-Letters-Early 20th
Continuing Animal Protection Law
[1901-1914] Edwardian Age
[1914-1945] Modern Period