Aberdare, Lord, on Vivisection, 73 (note 41).
Aristotle, quoted, 17.
Arnold, Dr., quoted, 15.
Bentham, Jeremy, on rights, 5, 14, 17, 42.
“Better for the animals themselves,” 24, 25, 37, 46, 52, 72, 73 (note 41).
Bright, John, quoted, 86.
Büchner, quoted, 83.
Caged animals, 36-39.
Caging of birds, 39.
Cartesian doctrine, 10, 11.
Castration of animals, 30, 31.
Cattle traffic, 42, 45.
Chesterfield, Lord, quoted, 43.
Church, the, and rights of animals, 3.
Cobbe, Frances Power, 8, 70, 71.
Comte, Auguste, 24 (note 17).
Cruelty to animals, causes of, 8-10, 16;
responsibility for, 59;
forms of, 75, 78.
Darwin, quoted, 12.
Democracy and rights of animals, 4, 23, 24, 85, 86.
Dixie, Lady F., quoted, 57.
“Domestic” animals, protected by law, 26.
“Dumb” animals, an objectionable term, 14, 15.
Education, as a method of reform, 86-89.
Erskine, Lord, quoted, 90.
Evans, E. P., quoted, 12-14.
Feather trade, 63, 64.
Flesh-eating, 42-47.
Food question, importance of, 41.
Fur trade, 59-63.
Gompertz, Lewis, quoted, 25 (note 19).
Helps, Sir A., 27.
Huxley, 10 (note 11).
Immortality of animals, 9, 10, 12.
Jenyns, Soame, quoted, 36, 52.
Kropotkine, P., 20 (note 16).
Law for preventing cruelty to animals, need of amendment, 55-57.
[124]Lawrence, John, quoted, 5, 6, 26, 27, 42.
Lecky’s “History of European Morals,” 9, 15, 16.
Legislation, as a method of reform, 89-91.
Machinery, use of, 29.
“Martin’s Act,” 6, 34, 56, 90.
Michelet, quoted, 44, 53, 54, 69.
Mill, J. S., quoted, 91.
Mills, Dr. Wesley, 12, 13.
Montaigne, 27.
More, Sir T., on sport, 54.
Natural history, true method and false, 67-69.
Nature, and struggle for existence, 19, 20, 47, 80, 81.
Necessity, plea of, 72, 79.
Nicholson, E. B., quoted, 37, 46.
Nomenclature, influence of, 14, 15.
Pain, the “discipline” of, 19.
Paine, Thomas, 4.
Paley, Dr. W., quoted, 43.
Performing Animals, 40.
“Pets,” 32.
Pheasant-shooting, 57.
Plutarch, 28.
Porphyry, 3, 21.
“Preservation” of animals, by sportsmen, 51, 52;
by collectors, 68.
Primatt, Dr. H., 9, 19, 26, 77, 78.
Property, influence on legislation, 34, 35.
Rabbit-coursing, 56.
Reason and instinct, 12, 13.
Rights, definition, 1, 2;
need of a clear principle, 7, 78, 79.
Ritchie, D. G., 2, 3, 7.
Romanes, Professor, 10.
Rousseau, 3, 88.
Scientists and the rights of animals, 67-70.
Schopenhauer, quoted, 11, 14, 42.
Seal Fishery, 63.
Slavery, 16, 17.
Spencer, Herbert, on rights, 2.
Sport, as related to other cruelties, 50, 51, 65, 66, 74;
excuses for, 53;
zest of, 54, 55.
Stag-hunting, 55.
Strauss, quoted, 83.
Thomson, J. Arthur, quoted, 20 (note 16).
Thoreau, 27, 29, 49, 68.
Vegetarianism, 44, 48, 49.
“Vermin,” treatment of, 56, 57.
Vivisection, its iniquity, 69, 70 (note 39);
relation to other cruelties, 67, 70, 74;
morality of, 71, 73;
right method of combating, 75, 76.
Voltaire, 3, 10.
Wild animals, unprotected by law, 26, 34-36;
sanctuaries for, 40, 55.
Wood, Rev. J. G., quoted, 12.
Wordsworth, quoted, 51.
Zoological Gardens, 38.