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References to "Rights" of Animals in Historical Literature


Experience plainly demonstrates the inefficacy of mere morality to prevent aggression, and the necessity of coercive laws for the security of rights. I therefore propose, that the Rights of Beasts be formally acknowledged by the state, and that a law be framed upon that principle, to guard and protect them from acts of flagrant and wanton cruelty, whether committed by their owners or others. (123)

Animal Rights History Timeline: Animal Rights Quotes—"Rights"
of Animals References in Historical Literature Against Cruelty to Animals



[1796] [John Lawrence, "On the Rights of Beasts," in vol. 1 of A Philosophical and Practical Treatise on the Horse, and on the Moral Duties of Man Towards the Brute Creation, 2 vols. (London, 1796-1798) 117-163.



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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[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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