Benjamin Rush
Medical Inquiries and Observations
Influence of Physical Causes Upon the Moral Faculty
「1795 「1786」」 Dr. Benjamin Rush, “An Inquiry into the Influence of Physical Causes upon the Moral Faculty: Delivered「1786-Feb-27」 before The American Philosophical Society…Philadelphia” in vol. 2 of Medical Inquiries and Observations 「Google Books」「1st ed. in 5 vols. 1794-1798」2nd ed. (Philadelphia 1805).
Cruelty to brute animals is another means of destroying moral sensibility. The ferocity of savages has been ascribed in part to their peculiar mode of subsistence. Mr. Hogarth points out, in his ingenious prints, the connection between cruelty to brute animals in youth, and murder in manhood.…I am so perfectly satisfied of the truth of a connection between morals and humanity to brutes, that I shall find it difficult to restrain my idolatry for that legislature, that shall first establish a system of laws, to defend them from outrage and oppression. (45)
