Excerpt from The National Sports of Great Britain: Fifty Engravings With Descriptions Field Sports and Diversions with Animals, in the early and half-civilized periods of the world, were necessarily, like the people them selves, rude and barbarous. There did not exist sufficient refinement in human reason to prompt it into any Speculations on the feelings or sufferings of brutes and if such sentiments should incidentally have arisen in the minds of individuals, they were stifled in their birth by all - controuling custom. ...
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Excerpt from The National Sports of Great Britain: Fifty Engravings With Descriptions Field Sports and Diversions with Animals, in the early and half-civilized periods of the world, were necessarily, like the people them selves, rude and barbarous. There did not exist sufficient refinement in human reason to prompt it into any Speculations on the feelings or sufferings of brutes and if such sentiments should incidentally have arisen in the minds of individuals, they were stifled in their birth by all - controuling custom. Such an idea as pity for the sufferings of a beast could scarcely exist in human minds, constituted and instructed as they then were; on the contrary, animal misery was a grand and favourite source of pleasure, and the public exposure of animals to the most excruciating tortures, appears to have been one of the most gratifying exhibitions. This natural, or unnatural tendency, in the mind of man, which he shares in common with the brutes his victims, and which, almost the highest degree of civilization has not been able to eradicate, has, doubtless, often exercised the lucubrations of the moral philosopher. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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