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
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
This confidence in the ability of the brute creation to detect the presence of a spirit, is a common superstition everywhere.
From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes
Sympathies might be denominated a moral contagion in mankind: in the brute creation they merely produce a physical impulse.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
