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Beast and Man in India

Beast and Man in India

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Young Adult Nonfiction

ISBN10: 1517267838
ISBN13: 9781517267834
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 8 2015
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.32 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
When, on the 21st March 1890, under the auspices of the Hon. Sir Andrew Scoble, the Legislative Council of India passed an Act (XI. of 1890) for the prevention of cruelty to animals, some surprise was expressed in England that legislation should be necessary for a people who have long been quoted as an example of mercy. It was hinted that Orientals must have learned cruelty, as they have learned drunkenness, from brutal Britons. Those who know India need not be told that this insinuation is groundless, since both vices have for ages been rooted in the life of Eastern as of all the nations under heaven. The general conclusion of cultivated Europe as to the temper of Orientals towards animals is expressed by Mr. Lecky, in a clause of the sentence with which he concludes a survey of a growth of consideration for animals as an element of public morals, in his History of European Morals from Constantine to Charlemagne, and runs thus: The Muhammadans and the Brahmans have in this sphere considerably surpassed the Christians.

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