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

Therefore reminiscence may be said to result from a connexion between ideas and images recalled into being by a regular succession of expressive signs that the brute creation do not possess.

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

Medical science, instituted on the bases of comparative pathology, would have made the study of diseases in the brute creation, not the collateral, but the principal object of its inquiries.

From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Bourguignon, Honor?

Every one knows, who is acquainted with art, the powers which Northcote displays when he paints animals of the brute creation.

From The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) by Knowles, John