brute creation
Example Sentences
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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
But between angels and men a much greater resemblance subsists, than between men and the brute creation; because the two former seem capable of improvement.
From Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories by Wollstonecraft, Mary
Even Cardinal Newman said,— 'We have no duties toward the brute creation; there is no relation of justice between them and us.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane
Every nerve is shaken by these terrible convulsions of nature; the very brute creation seem to feel their influence.
From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous
