Part II, p. 212
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A person who already displays … cruelty to animals is also no less hardened towards men. We can already know the human heart, even in regard to animals.
— Immanuel Kant
What It Means
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Source: Wikiquote: "Immanuel Kant" (Quotes, Lectures on Ethics (1924): Lectures on Ethics (original title: Eine Vorlesung Kants über Ethik, 1924), trans. Peter Heath, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, 2001.)
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