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Now what is it that moves our very hearts and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes?.. they have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance... there is something so very dreadful, so satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.

-John Henry Newman

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Now What Is It That Moves Our

John Henry Newman

Now what is it that moves our very hearts and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes?.. they have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance... there is something so very dreadful, so satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.

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Now what is it moves our very hearts, and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? i suppose this first, that they have done no harm; next, that they have no power whatever of resistance; it is the cowardice and tyranny of which they are the victims which makes their sufferings so especially touching.

The tendency to cruelty should be watched in children and if they incline to any such cruelty, they should be taught the contrary usage. for the custom of tormenting and killing other animals will, by degrees, harden their hearts even toward man. children should from the beginning, be brought up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting living beings.

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When you live in a poor neighborhood, you are living in an area where you have poor schools. when you have poor schools, you have poor teachers. when you have poor teachers, you get a poor education. when you get a poor education, you can only work in a poor-paying job. and that poor-paying job enables you to live again in a poor neighborhood. so, it's a very vicious cycle.

Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment nature injects in us all. the infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse's breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as i think i have said, nature's laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages, so much nearer to nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . . cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.

Brutes abstract not. -- if it may be doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas, that way, to any degree; this, i think, i may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to.

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