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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1839 Original Publisher: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman Subjects: Animal welfare Animal rights Nature / Animals Nature / Mammals Nature / Animal Rights Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 27 ON THE DUTY OF HUMANITY TO ANIMALS. It is only a delegated right which we possess over the inferior creation. It was entrusted to us by Him who made us all; whose grand object in the creation of the world was the production of the greatest good; who, notwithstanding this delegation, has never withdrawn his watchful care, and whose lender mercies are over all the works of his hands; who, in the establishment of the Jewish religion, condescended again and again to express his regard, not merely for man, but for the brute, and to enact certain laws which had especial reference to the protection and welfare of the inferior animals -- who in the Old Testament made the divine favour to depend in a most important degree on the practice of humanity -- and who, in due time, gave to the world that second and better revelation in which we are exhorted to be merciful as our Father also is merciful, for then, and then alone, we shall obtain mercy. With regard to the extent of this delegated power, it includes the use of the inferior creatures as food, but implies no thoughtless waste of life, no unnecessary pain in the destruction of the animal. When the right of destroying the inferior animals as food was given to Noah and his family, there was a restriction which the Jews have sacredly observed unto the present day: The flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. Two interpretations have been given to this, an...

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