Quote#Speech
And, indeed, has not nature given, to almost every creature, the same…
Quote byJohn Oswald (revolutionary) · 1700–1793
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Cry of Nature; or, An Appeal to Mercy and to Justice, on Behalf of the Persecuted Animals (1791), pp. 57–58.
English (original)
And, indeed, has not nature given, to almost every creature, the same spontaneous signs of the various affections? Admire we not in other animals whatever is most eloquent in man, the tremor of desire, the tear of distress, the piercing cry of anguish, the pity-pleading look, expressions that speak the soul with a feeling which words are feeble to convey?
— John Oswald (revolutionary)
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