Quote#Freedom
As the main work of civilisation has been the vindication of the…
Quote byFrances Power Cobbe · 1822–1904
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Modern Rack (1889), Ch. I: The Moral Aspects of Vivisection, p. 15.
English (original)
As the main work of civilisation has been the vindication of the rights of the weak, it is not too much, I think, to insist that the practice of Vivisection in which this tyranny of strength culminates is a retrograde step in the progress of our race—a backwater in the onward flowing stream of justice and mercy, no less portentous than deplorable.
— Frances Power Cobbe
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