brute creation
Example Sentences
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Seeking to impose a human identity on brute creation is a different thing.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 20, 2010
Of Mice, Monkeys & Space Sir: I resent your tendency to gouge and sideswipe the growing number of those who feel pity for brute creation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus, I may say, was the art of healing instinctively taught, and not unfrequently the brute creation guided the efforts of humanity; when man contemplated the means animals resorted to when labouring under disease.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
No bounteous grant of intellect, were it the pleasure of Heaven to make such grant, could raise any of the brute creation to an equality with the human race.
From The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 by Daniel Webster
These were primitive masquerades, where the actors, if we may judge from antique illuminations, generally mimicked the brute creation rather than human beings.
From The Evolution of Fashion by Florence Mary Gardiner
