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Excerpt from Shelley's Principles: Has Time Refuted or Confirmed Them? The following essay on "Shelley's Principles, " which has been read, under a different title, at one of the Shelley Society's meetings, was indirectly the outcome of a friendly challenge from Professor Dowden, to the effect that he, "as a lover of Shelley, should like to see someone who places him in the first rank of poets, other than lyrical, show where he is original in...

Excerpt from Killing for Sport: Essays by Various Writers In a civilised community, where the services of the hunter are no longer required, blood sports are simply an anachronism, a relic of savagery which time will gradually remove, and the appeal against them is not to the interested parties whose practices are arraigned - not to the belated Nim rods who find a pleasure in killing - but to that force of public opinion which put down bear b...

A collection of essays by the English social reformer and animal rights campaigner published together in book form in 1921.

Excerpt from The Life of James Thomson B: With a Selection From His Letters and a Study of His Writings I could wish that the duty of writing this biography had been entrusted to one who had enjoyed the ad vantage of personal acquaintance with James Thom son. As, however, no such biographer was forth coming, I have done my best to put together the scattered records already published, and to collect such further information as could still be o...

Excerpt from The Logic of Vegetarianism: Essays and Dialogues Where slaughter'd beasts lie quivering, pile on pile, And bare-armed flashers, bathed in bloody dew, Ply hard their ghasly trade, and hack and hew, And mock sweet Mercy's name, yet loathe the while The lot that chains them to this service vile, Their hands in hideous carnage to imbrue: Lo, there! - the preacher of the Good and True, The Moral Man, with sanctimonious, smile! "T...

Excerpt from The Life of James ThomsonI could wish that the duty of writing this biography had been entrusted to one who had enjoyed the advan tage Of personal acquaintance with James Thomson. As, however, no such biographer was forthcoming, I have done my best to put together the scattered records already published, and to collect such further information as could still be obtained. It has been my object to avoid all fancy portraiture, and to...

Salt was an English writer and campaigner for social reform in fields such as prisons, schools and the treatment of animals. He was also a noted ethical vegetarian, anti-vivisectionist, socialist and pacifist. This work was first published in 1899 and is reprinted from the revised second edition of 1906.

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Excerpt from De Quincey I have incorporated in the third chapter the substance of an article entitled Some Thoughts on De Quincey which I published nearly twenty years ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the ...

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The Life Of Henry David Thoreau, By Henry Stephens Salt. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.