Humanitarian Essays: Being Volume III. of "Cruelties of Civilization."Henry S. Salt W. Reeves, 1897 |
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... England , " said Victor Hugo , " they venerate so many laws that they never repeal any . They save themselves from the con- sequences of their veneration by never putting any of them into execution . " The history of the Factory Acts ...
... England , " said Victor Hugo , " they venerate so many laws that they never repeal any . They save themselves from the con- sequences of their veneration by never putting any of them into execution . " The history of the Factory Acts ...
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... . Sixty or seventy years ago - nay , thirty or forty years ago - England was much agitated upon this subject . In those times there were large and influential societies work- THE GALLOWS AND THE LASH . THE GALLOWS AND THE.
... . Sixty or seventy years ago - nay , thirty or forty years ago - England was much agitated upon this subject . In those times there were large and influential societies work- THE GALLOWS AND THE LASH . THE GALLOWS AND THE.
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... . Sixty or seventy years ago - nay , thirty or forty years ago - England was much agitated upon this subject . In those times there were large and influential societies work- ing actively for the abolition of the death punishment .
... . Sixty or seventy years ago - nay , thirty or forty years ago - England was much agitated upon this subject . In those times there were large and influential societies work- ing actively for the abolition of the death punishment .
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... . BENEFIT OF CLERGY . " Benefit of clergy " played a curious and most im- portant part in the history of punishment in England . It was undoubtedly the means of saving many lives and in that respect had a redeeming quality ; but , for 5.
... . BENEFIT OF CLERGY . " Benefit of clergy " played a curious and most im- portant part in the history of punishment in England . It was undoubtedly the means of saving many lives and in that respect had a redeeming quality ; but , for 5.
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... England has been tremendous . It is said by Holinshed , an Elizabethan writer , that during the reign of Henry VIII -a period of not more than 38 years - upwards of 72,000 persons were hanged as thieves and vagabonds . This statement is ...
... England has been tremendous . It is said by Holinshed , an Elizabethan writer , that during the reign of Henry VIII -a period of not more than 38 years - upwards of 72,000 persons were hanged as thieves and vagabonds . This statement is ...
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Humanitarian Essays: Being Volume III. of Cruelties of Civilization. Henry Stephens Salt,Humanitarian League (London) Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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Página 37 - Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart: were the entirest strangers: nay. in so wide a Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! Their governors had fallen out: and instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.
Página 15 - I will not kill nor hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty, upon the earth.
Página 37 - Enemies" of the French, there are successively selected, during the French war, say thirty able-bodied men: Dumdrudge, at her own expense, has suckled and nursed them: she has, not without difficulty and sorrow, fed them up to manhood...
Página 13 - ... the custom of tormenting and killing of beasts will by degrees, harden their minds even towards men; and they who delight in the suffering and destruction of inferior creatures, will not be apt to be very compassionate or benign to those of their own kind.
Página 37 - Fire!" is given: and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for.
Página 44 - His blood-red tresses deep'ning in the sun, With death-shot glowing in his fiery hands, And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon; Restless it rolls, now fix'd, and now anon Flashing afar, - and at his iron feet Destruction cowers, to mark what deeds are done; For on this morn three potent nations meet, To shed before his shrine the blood he deems most sweet.
Página 29 - You are prepared to establish that as a principle which you approve? — I think that with regard to an experimenter, a man who conducts special research, and performs an experiment, he has no time, so to speak, for thinking what will the animal feel or suffer. His only purpose is to perform the experiment, to learn as much from it as possible, and to do it as quickly as possible.
Página 11 - Among the noblest in the land, Though he may count himself the least, That man I honour and revere Who without favour, without fear, In the great city dares to stand The friend of every friendless beast, And tames with his unflinching hand The brutes that wear our form and face, The were-wolves of the human race...
Página 11 - Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags were furled In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.
Página 19 - In such cases he will most likely tell the truth, but not the whole truth, and assign some prominent symptom of the disease as the cause of death. As instances of cases which may tell against the medical man himself, I will mention erysipelas from vaccination, and puerperal fever. A death from the first cause occurred not long ago in my practice; and although I had not vaccinated the child, yet, in my desire to preserve vaccination from reproach, I omitted all mention of it from my certificate of...