John Lord Campbell
Lives of the Lord Chancellors
Lord Erskine’s Bill for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
「1848」John Lord Campbell, “Lord Erskine’s Bill For the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,” in ch. 186 “Life of Lord Erskine,” in The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England from the Earliest Times till the Reign of King George IV 「Google Books」(London, 1845; Philidelphia, 1848; Google Books: Online Library of Free eBooks) 464-466.
Independently of “the rights of brutes,” which it may be difficult to protect by human laws, although the subject of religious and moral obligation, I think there can be not doubt that any malicious and wanton cruelty to animals in public,—outrages the feeling,—and has a tendency to injure the moral character of those who witness it,—and may therefore be treated as a crime. (466)
