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References to "Rights" of Animals in Historical Literature


The wise man calls upon us to 'open our mouths' [for] the 'dumb,'…the unhappy victims of…lawless cruelty and oppression; wretches, who have no kind advocate to plead in behalf of their invaded rights; no helping hand to procure for them redress from their furious assailants; no friend to truth, ready, or willing, to expose the cunning devices wherewith they have been entrapped.—Well may they be called "dumb," since their tongues can be of no avail to them, when silenced by the imperiousness of wealth, the dread of irritating, by a vain appeal to justice, those under whose hands they have already groaned, to still further acts of violence, and their utter inability to baffle the false gloss with which the vile schemes of their adversaries have deluded them.

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of Animals References in Historical Literature Against Cruelty to Animals



Source Documents [1824] A Clergyman of the Church of England, A Sermon on the Unjustifiableness of Cruelty to the Brute Creation, and the Obligation we are Under to Treat it with Lenity and Compassion (London: Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 1824).



The Bookworm, Carl Spitzweb
The Bookworm, Carl Spitzweg

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