We women have before us the noblest end to which a finite creature may attain; and our duty is nothing else than the fulfilment of the whole moral la… - Frances Power Cobbe

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We women have before us the noblest end to which a finite creature may attain; and our duty is nothing else than the fulfilment of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.

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About Frances Power Cobbe

(4 December 1822 – 5 April 1904) was an Irish writer, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist, and leading campaigner. She founded a number of animal advocacy groups, including the (NAVS) in 1875, and the (BUAV) in 1898.

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Alternative Names: Merlin Nostradamus Frances Cobbe Frances Power
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I could not bear it did I not believe in another life for the poor harmless victims where their wrongs will be recompensed, & I may add also in another life for their inhuman persecutors where they will all repent in moral agony worse than the physical pain of their poor victims.

I think that every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking, or some social agitation of reform, and give to that cause whatever time and work she may be able to afford; thus completing her life by adding to her private duties the noble effort to advance God's Kingdom beyond the bounds of her home.

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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.

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