Rev. Augustus M. Toplady
Speech: Whether Unnecessary Crulty to the Brute Creation is Not Criminal
「c1778」Augustus M. Toplady, On Cruelty to the Brute Creation, Speech Delivered at the Queen’s Arms, Newgate-Street, on the Following Question: “Whether Unnecessary Cruelty to the Brute Creation is Not Criminal?” in vol. 3 of The Works of Augustus M. Toplady「Google Books」(London 1825) 459-466.
I now come directly to the question; and, without hesitation, or limitation, deliver it as my steadfast believe that all wanton exercise of power over, and all unnecessary cruelty to, the brute creation is truly and properly criminal. Several good reasons have been urged, in proof of this ,by some gentlemen who spoke before me; but I own, there is one argument, which has more with me that all that have been yet offered, and which I wonder on gentleman has hitherto mentioned. I firmly believe, that beasts have souls; souls, truly and properly so called: which, if true, entitles them, not only to all due tenderness, but even to a higher degree than is usually shown to them (460-464)
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「1868」Howard Malcom, “Cruelty to Brutes,” in References to the Principal Works in Every Department of Religious Literature (Boston, 1868)
