William Edward Hartpole Lecky: Quotes about animals

William Edward Hartpole Lecky was British politician. Explore interesting quotes on animals.
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“It is abundantly evident, both from history and from present experience, that the instinctive shock, or natural feeling of disgust, caused by the sight of the sufferings of men is not generically different from that which is caused by the sight of the sufferings of animals.”

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Source: A History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne (1869), Chapter 2 (2nd edition, Vol. 1, London: Longmans, 1869, p. 294 https://books.google.it/books?id=hdUJs_S3ezwC&pg=PA294)

Men , Feeling , History , Nature

“There can indeed be little doubt that for nearly two hundred years after its establishment in Europe, the Christian community exhibited a moral purity which, if it has been equaled, has never for any long period been surpassed. Completely separated from the Roman world that was around them, abstaining alike from political life, from appeals to the tribunals, and from military occupations; looking forward continually to the immediate advent of their Master, and the destruction of the Empire in which they dwelt, and animated by all the fervor of a young religion, the Christiana found within themselves a whole order of ideas and feelings sufficiently powerful to guard them from the contamination of their age.”

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Source: A History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne (1869), Chapter 4 (3rd edition p. 11)

Life , Age , World , Religion

“At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity, and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world. In each of these stages a standard is formed, different from that of the preceding stage, but in each case the same tendency is recognised as virtue.”

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Source: A History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne (1869), Chapter 1 (2nd edition, Vol. 1, London: Longmans, 1869, p. 103 https://books.google.it/books?id=hdUJs_S3ezwC&pg=PA103)

World , Family , Time , Animals