1. The Ethic of Reverence for Life, by Albert Schweitzer
sake of life, motivated by reverence for life. Although the
phrase "reverence for life" may perhaps sound a trifle unreal, yet
that which it denotes is something which never lets go its hold of
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2. Language and the Orang-utan: The Old 'Person' of the Forest, by H. Lyn White...
races, women, children and animals. Western
philosophy continued this imperious attitude with the views of
Descartes, who proposed that animals were just like machines with
no significant language,
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3. Human Beasts of Prey and Fellow-Suffering, by Richard Wagner
in a world from which all reverence has
vanished, or tarries but as hypocritical pretence, is there no
example for us to take from the affecting lesson of the animals we
govern? Where devotion true
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4. Logic of the Larder, by Henry S. Salt
the life of
animals doomed to the slaughter is of a far lower quality than it
would be if the same animals were either entirely wild, or
domesticated to some rational purpose by friendly association
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5. The Animal Rights Library : Classic Authors
Powers of Man and the Lower Animals
Life of Pythagoras
Diet and Diet Reform
They Pity, and Eat the Objects of Their Compassion
Carnivorous Callousness
Of the Reason of Animals
On the Pythagorean
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6. The Animal Rights Library : Classic Texts
Powers of Man and the Lower Animals
Life of Pythagoras
Diet and Diet Reform
They Pity, and Eat the Objects of Their Compassion
Carnivorous Callousness
Of the Reason of Animals
On the Pythagorean
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7. Higher Laws, by Henry David Thoreau
rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love
the wild not less than the good. The wildness and adventure that
are in fishing still recommended it to me. I like sometimes to
take rank hold on
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