Humanitarian Essays: Being Volume III. of "Cruelties of Civilization."Henry S. Salt W. Reeves, 1897 |
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... present system . In the Swiss Cantons the subject of capital punishment has been made a party question , and the matter was settled in 1879 by the penalty being retained in some Cantons and abolished in others ; but in the eight Can ...
... present system . In the Swiss Cantons the subject of capital punishment has been made a party question , and the matter was settled in 1879 by the penalty being retained in some Cantons and abolished in others ; but in the eight Can ...
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... present system I would not wish perpetual imprisonment to anyone . And , in spite of all our failures so far , I should be very sorry to see the law itself shut the door on all chances of reforming the criminal ; and without hope of ...
... present system I would not wish perpetual imprisonment to anyone . And , in spite of all our failures so far , I should be very sorry to see the law itself shut the door on all chances of reforming the criminal ; and without hope of ...
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... present we are " rushed " into war . The Sovereign has the power of declaring war , and in many cases it is beyond doubt that royalty is largely responsible for the inception and development of international quarrels . Was it not Lord ...
... present we are " rushed " into war . The Sovereign has the power of declaring war , and in many cases it is beyond doubt that royalty is largely responsible for the inception and development of international quarrels . Was it not Lord ...
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... present of £ 25,000 . Lord Wolseley had a grant of £ 25,000 for the Ashantee war , the only remaining trophy of which is King Coffee's umbrella ; and another £ 30,000 for his Egyptian victories . Oh for another Swift to satirise this ...
... present of £ 25,000 . Lord Wolseley had a grant of £ 25,000 for the Ashantee war , the only remaining trophy of which is King Coffee's umbrella ; and another £ 30,000 for his Egyptian victories . Oh for another Swift to satirise this ...
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... present century England alone has spent on her army and navy , and the interest of her national debt , nearly six thousand millions . A third of that sum would buy up her whole soil from the landlords , restore it to the people , and ...
... present century England alone has spent on her army and navy , and the interest of her national debt , nearly six thousand millions . A third of that sum would buy up her whole soil from the landlords , restore it to the people , and ...
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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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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...