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
The senses both of man and the brute creation are rendered much more keen by abstinence.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
To associate our moral sympathies with physical consents of parts is to level man with the brute creation; although we hourly see the most decided instinctive dislikes in animals overcome by education.
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)
