Humanitarian Essays: Being Volume III. of "Cruelties of Civilization."Henry S. Salt W. Reeves, 1897 |
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... execution of murderers necessary for the protection of society ? and we can also ask ourselves , is the execution of murderers necessary to satisfy the natural vindictiveness of society ? To each of these questions I shall emphatically ...
... execution of murderers necessary for the protection of society ? and we can also ask ourselves , is the execution of murderers necessary to satisfy the natural vindictiveness of society ? To each of these questions I shall emphatically ...
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... executed with greater certainty would prove more of a deterrent than the death penalty with its uncertainty . But I ... executions since 1840 , we shall find that the number of persons executed during the twenty years 1840-1859 averaged ...
... executed with greater certainty would prove more of a deterrent than the death penalty with its uncertainty . But I ... executions since 1840 , we shall find that the number of persons executed during the twenty years 1840-1859 averaged ...
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... executions to sentences for all offences , in respect of murder the difference is not very great , and such differ- ence ... execution took place in 1846 , and in 1867 capital punishment was abolished by an almost unanimous vote . It is ...
... executions to sentences for all offences , in respect of murder the difference is not very great , and such differ- ence ... execution took place in 1846 , and in 1867 capital punishment was abolished by an almost unanimous vote . It is ...
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... execution since 1876. In none of these countries has any increase in the crime of murder been recorded . Then there are those other countries , such as France , Germany , Austria and Spain , where executions are more or less frequent ...
... execution since 1876. In none of these countries has any increase in the crime of murder been recorded . Then there are those other countries , such as France , Germany , Austria and Spain , where executions are more or less frequent ...
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... executions . Between 1863 and 1889 there were in this country 1,785 persons charged with murder ; of these 713 , or ... execution is postponed until after the birth , but as a matter of practice the sentence is never carried out . What ...
... executions . Between 1863 and 1889 there were in this country 1,785 persons charged with murder ; of these 713 , or ... execution is postponed until after the birth , but as a matter of practice the sentence is never carried out . What ...
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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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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...