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... pain for its own sake , is so far repug- nant to the general sympathies even of our fallen nature , that the efforts of the friends of humanity are to be directed more against ignorance and thoughtlessness than against absolute cruelty ...
... pain for its own sake , is so far repug- nant to the general sympathies even of our fallen nature , that the efforts of the friends of humanity are to be directed more against ignorance and thoughtlessness than against absolute cruelty ...
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... pain which he is causing , and cannot therefore be af- fected by it . The physiologist proves the truth of this , when he sits down coolly to describe his ex- periments . Then we can perceive , through the thin curtain of his language ...
... pain which he is causing , and cannot therefore be af- fected by it . The physiologist proves the truth of this , when he sits down coolly to describe his ex- periments . Then we can perceive , through the thin curtain of his language ...
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... pain , and he will shrink in- stinctively back from the victim of his torture . In these , and in multitudes of other cases , there has been merely a prevention of the natural exercise of sympathy , without any deviation from the fixed ...
... pain , and he will shrink in- stinctively back from the victim of his torture . In these , and in multitudes of other cases , there has been merely a prevention of the natural exercise of sympathy , without any deviation from the fixed ...
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... pain and injury inflicted ; in the other , to the moral degradation and the reflex effects upon the heart of man . And , as the effects of cruelty are twofold , so also are those of benevolence ; for , " Mercy is twice blessed ; It ...
... pain and injury inflicted ; in the other , to the moral degradation and the reflex effects upon the heart of man . And , as the effects of cruelty are twofold , so also are those of benevolence ; for , " Mercy is twice blessed ; It ...
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... pain together , under the oppression of sin . - Gen . iii . 17 ; Rom . viii . 22 , * The weight of this consideration ought to be greatly increased , when we know that , notwithstanding their present condition is the effect of our ...
... pain together , under the oppression of sin . - Gen . iii . 17 ; Rom . viii . 22 , * The weight of this consideration ought to be greatly increased , when we know that , notwithstanding their present condition is the effect of our ...
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Page 27 - If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young...
Page 20 - But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee ; And the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee : Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee : And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
Page 23 - And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you ; and with every living creature that Is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you ; 15 from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
Page 67 - 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 at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Page 22 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle: and herb for the service of man; That he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Page 24 - I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. "And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
Page 17 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you ; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Page 21 - Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed, to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat :
Page 22 - So is this great and wide sea, Wherein are things creeping innumerable, Both small and great beasts. There go the ships : There is that leviathan, whom THOU hast made to play therein.
Page 84 - ... that so provident a cause as nature had not placed so many valves without design ; and no design seemed more probable than that, since the blood could not well, because of the interposing valves, be sent by the veins to the limbs, it should be sent through the arteries and return through the veins, whose valves did not oppose its course that way.