...is from Jeremy Bemham's Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789). chapter 17: "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. The French have already discovered...

...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...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...

...animal rights. In a footnote to his 1789 Principles of Morals and Legislation, Bentham argued that "the day may come, when the rest of the animal creation...been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny" (Bentham 1948, 310-1 in. i).19 Writing seven years later, Lawrence spoke with a far greater sense of...

...exploitation, neither does the number of legs, the degree of reason, or the capacity for conversation. "The day may come 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 ... A full grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a...

...oft-quoted and justly famous passage, declares the relevance of the pain of animals in the following way. The French have already discovered that the blackness...the skin is no reason why a human being should be ahandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor. It may come one day to be recognized, that...

...nonanthropocentric ethic. More than 100 years ago, the utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham affirmed, The day may come when the rest of the animal creation...caprice of a tormentor. It may one day come to be recognized that the number of the legs ... or the termination of the os sacrum are reasons equally...

...whether the expanding circle of liberal rights might in the future come to include nonhuman animals. The day may come when the rest of the animal creation...caprice of a tormentor. It may one day come to be recognized that the number of legs, the villosity of the skin, or the termination of the os sacrum...

...follow his own logic beyond the species boundary. His comment on animals was brief but significant. The day may come, when the rest of the animal creation...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...

...what Jeremy Bentham (1 748-1 832) has to say about it in The Principles of Morals and Legislation . The day may come, when the rest of the animal creation...abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor. lt may come one day to be recognised, that the number of the legs, the villosity of the skin, or the...

...the British dominions were still being treated much as we now treat nonhuman animals, Bentham wrote: The day may come when the rest of the animal creation...of the skin is no reason why a human being should he abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor. It may one day come to be recognised that...