“Without perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.”

— John Ruskin

At the annual meeting of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (1877), in Arrows of the Chase, vol. 2 (in The Complete Works of John Ruskin, vol. 23 https://books.google.it/books?hl=it&id=Gpc3AAAAYAAJ), p. 129.

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