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References to "Rights" of Animals in Historical Literature


But as our more immediate business at present is with brutes, and their rights, in order to accomplish in a becoming manner this arduous investigation, I shall prove, in the first place, that they are rational beings, as well as man; and in the second place, I shall enumerate some out of the numberless advantages which would arise from endeavouring to understand the language of brutes, and restoring them to their natural equality with mankind.

Animal Rights History Timeline: Animal Rights Quotes—"Rights"
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Source Documents [1792] Thomas Taylor, "That Brutes Possess Reason in Common with Men," chap. 2 in A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes (London, 1792; Gainesville, Florida: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1966).



The Bookworm, Carl Spitzweb
The Bookworm, Carl Spitzweg


Animal Rights History Timeline: Romantic Age[1785-1837]

Romanticism; Romantic Poets


[—Activists-Advocates-Authors
[—Modern Legislative Beginnings]
[—Romantic Periodicals-Articles]


[Abstinence from Animal Food]
[Animal Rights Quotes]
[Animal Rights Law]
[Anti-Vivisection Quotes]
[Humane Education, Teaching Children Kindness to Animals]
[Hunting, Blood-Sports Cruelty]
[Poetry-Plays; Humane Poets]
[Religion-Religious Quotes
Sermons Against Animal Cruelty]
[Souls, Immortality, Future Life]
[Humanity-Justice-Kindness]
[Intelligence-Reason-Emotion]
[Make Compassion the Fashion;
Beauty-Feathers-Fur-Leather]
[Cruelty-Slavery of Animals]
[Strait from the Horse's Mouth:
Words from Animals Themselves]
[Vegetarians-Vegans; Cruelty of Slaughter, Abstinence-Animals]


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BCE-c485] Antiquity
[c485-1450] Medieval
[1450-1660] Renaissance
[1660-1785] Enlightenment
[1785-1837] Romantic Age
[1837-1901] Victorian Age
[1901-1945] 20thc-Modernism


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