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

I recognize no link of gradation which would connect man mentally with the brute creation.

From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

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 Gardiner, Florence Mary

Thus do we find that the brute creation are less subject to those affections that abridge their days than mankind.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)