Charles Hawtrey
A Sermon on the Duty of Humanity Towards the Irrational Part of Creation
「1806」Rev. Charles Hawtrey, A Sermon, Preached at Holy-Rhood Church, Southampton on Sunday, August 10, 1806; on the Duty of Humanity Towards the Irrational Part of Creation, By the Rev. Charles Sleech Hawtrey, A.B. Curate of Holy-Rhood Parish, Published at the Request of the Institutor of the Annual SErmon on the Subject (London, 1806).
「1806-Aug」 review and extracts of “A Sermon, Preached at Holy-Rhood Church, Southampton on Sunday, August 10, 1806; on the Duty of Humanity Towards the Irrational Part of Creation, by Charles Sleech Hawtrey, A.B. Curate of Holy-Rhood Parish,” Orthodox Churchman’s Magazine and Review 11 「Google Books」 11 (1806-Aug): 146-147.
Our own minds, if we would listen to their impartial dictates, are sufficient to convince us, that, in tyrannizing with unfeeling cruelty over the irrational creation, we assume a right which was never conferred upon us.
That indeed it belongs to man to have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, over the cattle, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, is clearly evinced, by a comparison of their relative conditions and endowments. The superiority of reason over instinct, is too glaring and manifest to be questioned by any. But it is equally evident to every unbiased understanding, that if the subordinate animals were intended by Providence to yield their services and obedience to man, that he, on the other hand, is equally required to afford security and protection to them.
What an object of universal desestationis the man, who, being entrusted by his fellow creatures with the important charge of government, changes the right of legal and salutary dominion into an unjust and tyrannical despotism.
But let us for a moment reflect how small is the shade of difference between the character of such an one, and of those who willfully abuse the power with which they are endued over the creatures below them; and instead of treating them with the kindness of masters, exercise towards them the cruelty of despots.
This, far from being an abuse of a more justifiable nature than the former, is in one point of view marked with a deeper malignity. For he who oppresses and injures his fellow creatures, at least incurs the risk of oppositions and punishment; but he who torments with inhuman rigour the irrational species, violates the rights of those who cannot resist him, destroys the happiness of being who have neither capacity to oppose nor power to avenge his injustice.
How strikingly does this remark verify an assertion which has passed into a proverb,—that there is a close alliance and affinity between cowardice and cruelty.
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「1810-Aug」 Orthodox Churchman’s Magazine: The sermon before us, is a very suitable and pathetic discourse on the occasion, from the appropriate passage of our Lord (Matthew x. 29.) “Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And one of them shall not fall to the ground without your Father.…which does great credit to the abilities and benevolence of the author. review and extracts of “A Sermon, Preached at Holy-Rhood Church, Southampton on Sunday, August 10, 1806; on the Duty of Humanity Towards the Irrational Part of Creation, by Charles Sleech Hawtrey, A.B. Curate of Holy-Rhood Parish,” Orthodox Churchman’s Magazine and Review 11 (1806-Aug): 146-147.
「1806-Aug」 review of “A Sermon, Preached at Holy-Rhood Church, Southampton on Sunday, August 10, 1806; on the Duty of Humanity Toward the Irrational Part of Creation, by Charles Sleech Hawtrey, A.B. Curate of Holy-Rhood Parish,” Annual Review 5 (1806): 137.
「1806-Oct」 British Critic: The institutor of this annual sermon (whose anime we do not discover) appears to be animated by a truly Christian spirit towards the brute creation. The preacher seconds his good intentions, by proving, “that the claims of the brute creatio n to kind and merciful treatment, are derived from the dictates of reason and enforced by the commands of revelation,” review of A Sermon, Preached at HolyRood Church, Southampton on Sunday, August 10, 1806; on the Duty of Humanity Towards the Irrational Part of Creation, ” British Critic 28 (1806-Oct): 453-454.
「1831-Jul」Gentleman’s Magazine: Rev. Charles Sleethc Hawtrey, Vicar Wilstone, Monm and Minister of the Episcopal Jews’ Chapel, Bethual Green—Curate of Holyrood parish, Southhampton and was an author of…”Sermon on the duty of Humantiy to the Irrational part of the Creation— “Obituary—Clergy Deceased: The Rev. Charles Hawtrey Sleech Hawtrey,” Gentleman’s Magazine (1831-Jul ) 91. Google Books: Online Library of Free eBooks.
「1868」Howard Malcom, “Cruelty to Brutes,” in References to the Principal Works in Every Department of Religious Literature (Boston, 1868).
