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...his [mankind's] sympathies became more tender and widely diffused, extending to men of all... and finally to the lower animals -- so would the standard of his morality rise higher and higher.
[Chapter 4.]
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...love for all living creatures, the most noble attribute of man...
[Chapter 4.]
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...few people seem to perceive fully, as yet, that the most far-reaching consequence of the establishment of the common origin of all species is ethical; that it logically involved a readjustment of altruistic morals, by enlarging, as a necessity of rightness, the application of what has been called the Golden Rule from the area of mere mankind to that of the whole animal kingdom.
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It is not creditable to a thinking people that the two things they most thank God for should be eating and fighting. We say grace when we are going to cut up lamb and chicken, and when we have stuffed ourselves with both to an extent that an orangutan would be ashamed of; and we offer up our best praises to the Creator for having blown and sabered his 'images,' our fellow-creatures, to atoms, and drenched them in blood and dirt. This is odd. Strange that we should keep our most pious transports for the lowest of our appetites and the most melancholy of our necessities; that we should never be wrought up into paroxysms of holy gratitude, but for bubble-and-squeak or a good-sized massacre!
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...for they suffer none of their citizens to kill their cattle, because they think that pity and good-nature, which are among the best of those affections that are born with us, are much impaired by the butchering of animals...
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I mention the spawning of the toads because it is one of the phenomena of spring which most deeply appeal to me, and because the toad, unlike the skylark and the primrose, has never had much of a boost from poets.
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For he who loves all animated nature will not hate any one tribe of innocent beings, and by how much greater his love for the whole, by so much the more will he cultivate justice towards a part of them, and that part to which he is most allied.
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...man seems to be in a worse state even than the brutes...
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I revert to the animal once in a while. Does a body good.
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By "humanitarian" we meant one who feels and acts humanely, not towards mankind only, or the lower animals only, but towards all sentient life...
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I only wish to say that for a good life a certain order of good actions is indispensable; that if a man's aspirations toward right living be serious they will inevitably follow one definite sequence, and in this sequence the first thing will be self-control in food — fasting [from animal products].
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We are not ostriches, and cannot believe that if we refuse to look at what we do not wish to see, it will not exist. This is especially the case when what we do not wish to see is what we wish to eat.
Chronology :
April 11, 2020 : Human Sympathy -- Added.
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