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 Nature teaches the brute creation to distinguish, without a preceptor, what is useful from what is hurtful, while man is left to his own inquiries.
From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 by Linn?, Carl von
Therefore reminiscence may be said to result from a connexion between ideas and images recalled into being by a regular succession of expressive signs that the brute creation do not possess.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
It is a favorite method of naturalists to draw an analogy between man and the brute creation; and, so far as he belongs to the animal kingdom, this method is undoubtedly correct and legitimate.
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)
