Brutes

The English Historical Review

A Brief Text-book of Logic and Mental Philosophy

The Duty of Mercy and the Sin of Cruelty to Brute Animals

This 18th-century divine's influential Dissertation was once regarded as the foundation stone of the RSPCA. It is devoted to teaching kindness to animals as a duty, and takes into account the connection between racism and the exploitation of non-humans, and between the violence of the 18th century and the failure of society in general to suppress its cruelties.