By some strange and sinister fatality the chosen victims at… - Frances Power Cobbe

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By some strange and sinister fatality the chosen victims at present are the most intelligent and friendly of our domestic favourites—the cats who purr in love and confidence as they sit beside us on the hearth; the dogs whose faithful hearts glow with an affection for us, truer and fonder than we may easily find in any human breast.

Frances Power Cobbe

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(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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Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two people who truly love each other to be not who shall command, but, who shall yield.

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.

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