“I cannot find any great difference, on the basis of natural reason and equity only, between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal flesh, except custom and practice.” HumansReasonNaturalDifferencesAnimalPracticeBasesFleshCustomsFeedingEquity Author:George Cheyne
“Without any extraordinary effort of genius, I have discovered that nature was the same three thousand years ago as at present; that men were but men then as well as now; that modes and customs vary often, but that human nature is always the same. And I can no more suppose, that men were better, braver, or wiser, fifteen hundred or three thousand years ago, than I can suppose that the animals or vegetables were better than they are now.” MenYearsHumansWellsI CanThreeAnimalEffortHuman NatureGeniusThousandHundredYears AgoExtraordinaryCustomsVegetablesFifteenThousand YearsWiserVary Author:Lord Chesterfield
“The tendency to cruelty should be watched in children and if they incline to any such cruelty, they should be taught the contrary usage. For the custom of tormenting and killing other animals will, by degrees, harden their hearts even toward man. Children should from the beginning, be brought up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting living beings.” IfsMenShouldHeartChildrenAnimalTaughtDegreesKillingContraryCrueltyTendenciesCustomsUsageInclineAbhorrenceKilling Others Author:John Locke