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In Defense of Animals

By pbingham

For these and other books regarding our relationship to the other creatures with whom we share the earth, browse the shelves at KF390.5A5 and the HV4700's.

"We need another and a wiser concept of animals...We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves.  And therein do we err.  For the animal shall not be measured by man.  In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.  They are not bretheren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth."   

                                                -- from "The Outermost House" by Henry Beston

Posted by Patricia Bingham-Harper

Full post as published by FSU College of Law Library Blog on March 03, 2006 (boomark / email).