 ... is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason, or perhaps the faculty of discourse? But a full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rationaL as well as a more conversable animaL than an infant of a day, or a week,...  Animal Welfare & Human Values - Էջ 31Rod Preece, Lorna Chamberlain - 1993 - 334 էջՄասամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1823 - 300 էջ
...conversible animal, than an infant of a day, or a week, or even a month, old. But suppose the case were otherwise, what would it avail? the question...Can they reason ? nor, Can they talk ? but, Can they suffer ? * See Lewis XlVthfe Code Noir. disposed to take upon them, and the best able to discharge,... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1834 - 678 էջ
...more conversible animal than an infant of a day, or a week, or even a month old. And suppose the case were otherwise, what would it avail ? The question...Can they reason! nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?' — Introduction to the Principles of Morals, 8$c. chap. xvii. p. 309. But, of sensitive beings,... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1834 - 476 էջ
...more conversible animal than an infant of a day, or a week, or even a month old. And suppose the case were otherwise, what would it avail ? The question...Can they reason ? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?—Introduction to the Principles of Morals, <$c. chap. xvii. p. 309. But, of sensitive beings,... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1838 - 334 էջ
...more conversable animal, than an infant of a day, or a week, or even a month old. But suppose the case were otherwise, what would it avail ? the question...Can they reason ? nor, Can they talk ? but, Can they suffer ? either in an adult, or in a non-adult state. The art of government, in as far as it concerns... | |
 | William Whewell - 1852 - 316 էջ
...more conversable animal, than an infant of a day, a week, or even a month old. But suppose the case were otherwise, what would it avail! The question is not, can they reason? nor, can theysjWfli? but, can they suffer ?" This appears to me a very remarkable passage, for the light -which... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1855 - 398 էջ
...more conversable animal than an infant of a day, a week, or even a month old. But suppose the case were otherwise, what would it avail ? The question is not, ' can they reason ?' nor ' can they speak ? ' but ' can they suffer ? '" I do not remember ever to have heard the kind and just treatment... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1859 - 576 էջ
...more conversable animal, than an infant of a day, a week, or even a month old. But suppose the case were otherwise, what would it avail ? The question is not, can they reason ? nor, can they speak ? but, can they suffer?' This noble anticipation, in 1780, of the better morality of which a... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1859 - 576 էջ
...more conversable animal, than an infant of a day, a week, or even a month old. But suppose the case were otherwise, what would it avail ? The question is not, can they reason ? nor, can they speak ? but, can they suffer?' This noble anticipation, in 1780, of the better morality of which a... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1859 - 670 էջ
...more conversable being than an infant of a day, a week, or even a month old. But suppose the case was otherwise, what would it avail ? The question is not, Can they reason ? nor, Can they speak ? but, Can they suffer ?" And to that question, alas, no querist need pause for a reply. Mrs.... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1871 - 358 էջ
...more conversable being than an infant of a day, a week, or even a month old. But suppose the case was otherwise, what would it avail ? The question is not, Can they reason ? nor, Can they speak? but, Can they suffer?" And to that question, alas, no querist need pause for a reply. Mrs. Jameson... | |
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