 | 1888 - 1026 pagine
...health, Or safety interfere, his rights aud claiins Are paramount, and raust extinguish theirs. Eise they are all — the meanest things that are — As...that life, As God was free to form them at the first. (VI, 581.) Wenn wir nicht zu stolz wären, könnten wir viel nützliche Eigenschaften von den Tieren... | |
 | Gavin Hopps, Jane Stabler - 2006 - 284 pagine
...obligations. Summarising, Cowper confirms the precedence and authority but sets strict limits to them: If man's convenience, health. Or safety interfere,...first. Who, in his sov'reign wisdom, made them all. (VI, 581-7) Most of the ways in which animals serve human needs are straightforwardly positive: 'Their... | |
 | Tristram Stuart - 2007 - 692 pagine
...The flesh of animals in fee, and claim O'er all we feed on, pow'r of life and death. The sum is this: if man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere,...claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs." The anti-slavery poet Samuel Jackson Pratt (1749-1814) has likewise been hailed as an advocate of vegetarianism.... | |
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The sum is this. If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest things that are, As free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them... 
