...liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.' " WHAT JEREMY BENTHAM SAYS. "The day may come when therest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withheld from them but by the hand of tyranny. It may come one day to be recognised that the number...

...exactly upon the same footing as, in England, for example, the inferior races of animals are still, yet the day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which could never have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny." Of Bentham, CM Atkinson, one...

...dead. But is there any reason why we should be suffered to torment them? Not any that I can see * * *. The French have already discovered that the blackness...without redress to the caprice of a tormentor. It may come one day to be recognized that the number of the legs, the villosity of the skin, or the termination...

...dead. But is there any reason why we should be suffered to torment them? Not any that I can see * * *. The French have already discovered that the blackness...without redress to the caprice of a tormentor. It may come one day to be recognized that the number of the legs, the villosity of the skin, or the termination...

...Book and elsewhere, which will recur to many readers at this point. " The day may come," he says, " when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withheld from them but by the hand of tyranny. It may come one day to be recognised that the number...

...any that I can see. Are there any why we should not be suffered to torment them? Yes, several. . . . The day may come, when the rest of the animal creation...withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.' ... It may come one day to be recognized, that the number of the legs, the villosity of the skin, or...

...exactly upon the same footing as, in England for example, the inferior races of animals are still. The day may come, when the rest of the animal creation...have been withholden from them but by the hand of tryanny. The French have already discovered that the blackness of the skin is no reason why a human...

...issue of suffering and animal interests a hundred years earlier in his well-known and eloquent passage: The day may come when the rest of the animal creation...may acquire those rights which never could have been witholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. ... It may one day come to be recognized that the number...

...the treatment of nonhuman animals is at issue? As Bentham noted, there seems to be no reason at all. The French have already discovered that the blackness...caprice of a tormentor. It may one day come to be recognized that the number of legs, the viscosity of the skin, or the termination of the os sacrum,...

...familiar liberal rhetoric to argue for an end to cruelty toward animals. "The day may come," he declared, "when the rest of the animal creation may acquire...have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny."30 Bentham's ethics stemmed from his "greatest happiness principle." Pain was bad, pleasure...