Humanitarian Essays: Being Volume III. of "Cruelties of Civilization."Henry S. Salt W. Reeves, 1897 |
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... sentenced , and of these 103 were hanged . In 1816 , Townsend , a well - known Bow Street officer , gave evidence before the Royal Commission that he had seen batches of twelve , sixteen , and twenty hanged at one execution , and once ...
... sentenced , and of these 103 were hanged . In 1816 , Townsend , a well - known Bow Street officer , gave evidence before the Royal Commission that he had seen batches of twelve , sixteen , and twenty hanged at one execution , and once ...
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... sentenced to death for the most trivial offences ( as , for example , a child of nine in 1833 , for breaking some glass and stealing 2d . worth of paint ) , yet the sentences were not carried out . In the year 1831 , for instance ...
... sentenced to death for the most trivial offences ( as , for example , a child of nine in 1833 , for breaking some glass and stealing 2d . worth of paint ) , yet the sentences were not carried out . In the year 1831 , for instance ...
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... sentenced ; and 386 , or less than one fourth , were executed . If we take the single year of 1892 , in that year 155 murders were reported to the police . Fifty persons were tried for murder , twenty - two were sentenced and eighteen ...
... sentenced ; and 386 , or less than one fourth , were executed . If we take the single year of 1892 , in that year 155 murders were reported to the police . Fifty persons were tried for murder , twenty - two were sentenced and eighteen ...
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... sentenced to death in Scotland ; that is to say , one in 1891 , three in 1892 , and none in the three remaining years . The same disinclination is seen in England in the one particular case , at least , of illegitimate infanticide ...
... sentenced to death in Scotland ; that is to say , one in 1891 , three in 1892 , and none in the three remaining years . The same disinclination is seen in England in the one particular case , at least , of illegitimate infanticide ...
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... sentenced to two month's imprisonment . Had the blow struck the child in a vital part the sentence would have been death ; as it was , despite the murderous intent , two month's im- prisonment was considered a punishment proportionate ...
... sentenced to two month's imprisonment . Had the blow struck the child in a vital part the sentence would have been death ; as it was , despite the murderous intent , two month's im- prisonment was considered a punishment proportionate ...
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Humanitarian Essays: Being Volume III. of Cruelties of Civilization ... Henry Stephens Salt,Humanitarian League (London) Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
Humanitarian Essays: Being Volume III. of Cruelties of Civilization. Henry Stephens Salt,Humanitarian League (London) Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
Humanitarian Essays: Being Volume III. of Cruelties of Civilization. Henry Stephens Salt,Humanitarian League (London) Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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abolished allowed army Bands of Mercy benefit of clergy birds boys calf lymph capital offences capital punishment cause child civilisation corporal punishment cow-pox crime criminal cruelty death penalty deterrent disease duty earn EDWARD CARPENTER England English erysipelas evil execution experience fact factories feel flogging food-reformers garotting girls Government hospitals Humanitarian League humanities of diet inflict inoculation inspectors instruction Jenner killing labour lash leprosy less living London Lords matter means ment Mercy method mind moral murder natural never organisation pain Parliament patients perhaps persons pets possible practice present prison public vaccinator question re-vaccinated recognise reform regard Report result sanitary schools scientific sentenced slaughter slaughter-house small-pox society sport suffering Sweating System syphilis tarian teachers teaching thing tion trade unvaccinated vaccination vegetarian vivisection W. H. Hudson wages women workers workshops young zoophilist
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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...