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The recognition of an original affinity between man and beast, however remote the kinship may be, or whether it be based upon the ancient dogma of me… - Edward Payson Evans
" "The recognition of an original affinity between man and beast, however remote the kinship may be, or whether it be based upon the ancient dogma of metempsychosis or the modern doctrine of evolution, necessarily creates a current of sympathy extending even to the most insignificant members of the great and widely diversified family of sentient beings, and rendering it impossible willfully to neglect or maltreat the "poor relations," to whom we are united by the warm and living ties of blood.
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About Edward Payson Evans
(December 8, 1831 – March 6, 1917) was an American scholar, linguist, and educator. He wrote on philology, literature, ethics, and the relationship between humans and animals. He studied and taught in both the United States and Europe, with a focus on German literature and oriental languages. Among his publications are Evolutional Ethics and Animal Psychology (1897), which addressed the ethical implications of evolutionary theory, and The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals (1906), a historical account of animal trials in Europe.
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Perhaps, with the introduction of more rational views of cosmogony and anthropology, and broader and more generous principles of psychology into our elementary text-books, through the union of a sounder physics with a larger metaphysics, our children's children may finally learn that there are inalienable animal as well as human rights, and that, in respect to the ties of moral obligation and the claims to kind and just treatment which they imply, not only "all nations of men," as Paul affirmed on Mar's Hill, but, as the Indian sage declared, "all living creatures are of one blood."
No one will seriously assert that the drosera, Dioncea muscipula, and other insectivorous and carnivorous plants are organisms superior in sensitiveness to those which they devour, or that this transformation of animal into vegetable structure increases the sum of pleasurable sensation m the world. The doctrine of evolution, which regards these antagonisms as mere episodes in the universal struggle for existence, has forever set aside this sort of theodicy and put an end to all teleological attempts to infer from the nature and operations of creation the moral character of the Creator.
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