“The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children, apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims of the most brutal part of mankind, the lower animals.”

Book V, Chapter 11, Section 9
Principles of Political Economy (1848-1871)

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British philosopher and political economist 1806–1873

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