...the British dominions were still being treated much as we now treat nonhuman animals, Bentham wrote: The day may come when the rest of the animal creation...been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The French have already discovered that the blackness of the skin is no reason why a human being should...

...rapprochement entre le droit des animaux et la situation des esclaves, voir ce passage capital : « The day may come, when the rest of the animal creation...been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The French have already discovered that the blackness of the skin is no reason why a human being should...

...rights for beasts and human slaves in almost the same breath and for the same theoretical reasons: The day may come, when the rest of the animal creation...been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The French have already discovered that the blackness of the skin is no reason why a human being should...

...interests. Jeremy Bentham, in an often quoted passage, advanced the case for the moral status of animals: The day may come when the rest of the animal creation...may acquire those rights which never could have been witholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The French have already discovered that the blackness...

...liberated its black slaves, while in British territories they continued to be "treated like animals." The day may come when the rest of the animal creation...been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The French have already discovered that the blackness of the skin is no reason why a human being should...

...jural persons. This position has a long prehistory, dating back to Jeremy Bentham's dictum of 1789: "the day may come when the rest of the animal creation...rights which never could have been withholden from them by the hand of tyranny."75 Legislation against cruelty to animals, Bentham's immediate concern, was...

...Can they reason'? nor Can they talk? but Can they suffer?' Writing in 1789 Jeremy Bentham declared: 'The day may come when the rest of the animal creation...may acquire those rights which never could have been withheld from them but by the hand of tyranny' (Nash 1990, p. 23). Bentham added that the time will...

...which has become famous in animal rights discussions and which comes close to the heart of the problem: The day may come when the rest of the animal creation...rights which never could have been withholden from them except by the hand of tyranny . . . The question is not 'Can they reason?' nor 'Can they talk?' but...

...not had the same means as man has of turning to account. Why ought they not? No reason can be given. The day may come when the rest of the animal creation...may acquire those rights which never could have been withheld from them but by the hand of tyranny. It may come one day to be recognized, that the number...

...calculus in a passage from Principles of Morals and Legislation that anticipates the extensionist project: The day may come when the rest of the animal creation...been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The French have already discovered that the blackness of the skin is no reason why a human being should...