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
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In our dealings with the brute creation, it cannot be too much insisted on that mutual confidence is only to be established by mutual good-will.
From Riding Recollections, 5th ed. by G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville
It is on this division that Aristotle founded his belief that the brute creation had not the faculty of reminiscence, although he allowed them to possess memory.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
Thus, I may say, was the art of healing instinctively taught, and not unfrequently the brute creation guided the efforts of humanity; when man contemplated the means animals resorted to when labouring under disease.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen