brute creation

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Seeking to impose a human identity on brute creation is a different thing.

From The Guardian • Dec. 20, 2010

Of Mice, Monkeys & Space Sir: I resent your tendency to gouge and sideswipe the growing number of those who feel pity for brute creation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her tender sympathy extended even to the brute creation.

From Memoir of John Howe Peyton in sketches by his contemporaries, together with some of his public and private letters, etc., also a sketch of Ann M. Peyton by Various

Some buried themselves in the gloomy depth of trackless forests, isolated from human contiguity, and assimilated in aspect and habits to the brute creation.

From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by Alberger, John

Thus do we find that the brute creation are less subject to those affections that abridge their days than mankind.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)