If "rights" exist at all-and both feeling and usage indubitably prove that they do exist-they cannot be consistently awarded to men and denied to animals, since the same sense of justice and compassion apply in both cases. (Henry Stephens Salt)

If "rights" exist at all-and both feeling and usage indubitably prove that they do exist-they cannot be consistently awarded to men and denied to animals, since the same sense of justice and compassion apply in both cases.

Henry Stephens Salt

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