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Soame Jenyns (1 January 1704 β 18 December 1787) was an English writer and Member of Parliament.
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βOmnipotence cannot work contradictions; it can only effect all possible things.β
βGreat men whilst living must expect disgraces,
Dead they're ador'dβwhen none desire their places.β
Dead they're ador'dβwhen none desire their places.β
βIf christian nations therefore were nations of christians, all war would be impossible and unknown among them.β
βThe chief business of a government is like that of a nurse, to hinder those who are under its care from doing mischief to themselves.β
βThousands are collected from the idle and the extravagant for seeing dogs, horses, men and monkeys perform feats of activity, and, in some places, for the privilege only of seeing one another.β
βThose who profess outrageous zeal for the liberty and prosperity of their country, and at the same time infringe her laws, affront her religion and debauch her people, are but despicable quacks.β
βWe are unable to give life, and therefore ought not wantonly to take it away from the meanest insect, without sufficient reason; they all receive it from the same benevolent hand as ourselves, and have therefore an equal right to enjoy it.β
βMan is that link of the chain of universal existence, by which spiritual and corporeal Beings are united β¦ How will man, that sanguinary tyrant, be able to excuse himself from the charge of those innumerable cruelties inflicted on his unoffending subjects committed to his care, formed for his benefit, and placed under his authority by their common Father?β
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Soame Jenyns on Insect suffering
βWe are unable to give life, and therefore ought not wantonly to take it away from the meanest insect, without sufficient reason; they all receive it from the same benevolent hand as ourselves, and have therefore an equal right to enjoy it.β
Soame Jenyns on Animals
βHow will man, that sanguinary tyrant, be able to excuse himself from the charge of those innumerable cruelties inflicted on his unoffending subjects committed to his care, formed for his benefit, and placed under his authority by their common Father?β
About Soame Jenyns
Soame Jenyns (1 January 1704 β 18 December 1787) was an English writer and Member of Parliament.