Lewis Gompertz
Moral Inquiries on the Situation of Man and Brutes
On the Crime of Committing Cruelty on Brutes and on Sacrificing Them to the Purposes of Man…Mr. Martin’s Act…
“Lewis Gompertz was an ardent humanitarian and a mechanical inventor of no little ingenuity, many of his inventions being designed to save animal suffering. He died in 1861. From 1826 to 1832 he was secretary of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty; but being then compelled to withdraw, owing to religious differences, he founded the Animals’ Friend Society, and a journal of the same name” (Henry Salt, Animals’ Rights「1892」). Salt also quotes Gompertz in the footnotes his chapter on domestic animals: “at least in the present state of society it is unjust, and considering the unnecessary abuse they suffer from being in the power of man, it is wrong to use them, and to encourage being placed in his power.”
「1825-Jan」review of Moral Inquiries on the Situation of Man and of Brutes by Lewis Gompertz (London, 1824),” Monthly Review, or Literary Journal 106 (1825-Jan) 109.
「1839」Thomas Forster, Philozoia, or, Moral Reflections on the Actual Condition of the Animal Kingdom, and on the Means of Improving he Same: with Numerous Anecdotes and Illustrative is addressed to lewis Gompertz, Esq., President of the Animals Friend Society.
「1892」Henry Salt, “Bibliography of the Rights of Animals: Lewis Gompertz, Moral Inquiries on the Situation of Man and of Brutes,” in Animals’ Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress, with a Bibliographical Appendix (London & New York, 1892; 1894; Online at Animal Rights History, 2003).
