“The stars of heaven never looked down on a more pitiful sight than that of a horse, after having drudged faithfully all his days in the service of his lord, cast out in his helpless old age to wander and perish.”

Source: Better-World Philosophy: A Sociological Synthesis (1899), The Preponderance of Egoism, pp. 128–129

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