Quote#Politics & Power
Every system of law is a system of education, and, in extending legal…
Quote byFrances Power Cobbe · 1822–1904
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Modern Rack (1889), Ch. XV: Four Reasons for Total Prohibition of Vivisection, pp. 223-224.
English (original)
Every system of law is a system of education, and, in extending legal sanction to the scientific torture of animals, the State educates the nation in a false view of the relations of man to the lower creatures, encourages selfishness and cruelty and the disregard of the rights of the weak by the strong.
— Frances Power Cobbe
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