I CANNOT think it extravagant to imagine, that mankind are no less in proportion accountable for the ill use of their dominion over creatures of the lower rank of beings, than for the exercise of tyranny over their own species. The Guardian - Seite 4071747Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Timothy Morton - 2000 - 304 Seiten
...think it extravagant to imagine, that mankind are no less, in proportion, accountable for the il use of their dominion over creatures of the lower rank of beings, than for the exercise of tyranny over their own species. . . Tis observeable of those noxious animals, which have... | |
| Aaron V. Garrett - 324 Seiten
...service necessarily subordinated animals 'Mankind are no less, in Proportion, accountable for the ill Use of their Dominion over Creatures of the lower Rank of Beings, than for the Exercise of Tyranny over their own species'. Humankind is actually more accountable, as the disparity... | |
| University of Chicago Press - 2003 - 314 Seiten
...ibrg'd the fword to minder man. DRYDEN. Cannot think it extravagant to imagine, that mankind are no lefs in proportion, accountable for the ill ufe of their...creatures of the lower rank of beings, than for the exfjr lie of tyranny over their own fpecies. The more cntiicly the inferior creation is fubmitted to... | |
| Andrew Linzey, Paul A. B. Clarke - 2004 - 240 Seiten
...Alexander Pope, who maintains that humans are "no less, in proportion, accountable for the ill use of their dominion over creatures of the lower rank of beings, than for the exercise of tyranny over their own species."5 Indeed, discussion of what the biblical term "dominion"... | |
| Frank Palmeri - 2006 - 256 Seiten
...think it extravagant to imagine, that Mankind are no less, in Proportion, accountable for the ill Use of their Dominion over Creatures of the lower Rank of Beings, than for the Exercise of Tyranny over their own Species." He argues that "[t]he more entirely the Inferior Creation... | |
| Diana Donald - 2007 - 402 Seiten
...of 'the most inoffensive Animals': mankind were no less, in Proportion, accountable for the ill Use of their Dominion over Creatures of the lower Rank of Beings, than for the Exercise of Tyranny over their own Species ... I dare not attack a Diversion which has such Authority... | |
| American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals - 1899 - 340 Seiten
...think it extravagant to imagine, that mankind are no less, in proporfion, accountable for the ill use of their dominion over creatures of the lower rank of beings, than for the exercise of tyranny over their own species. The more entirely the inferior creation is submitted to... | |
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