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
It is a favorite method of naturalists to draw an analogy between man and the brute creation; and, so far as he belongs to the animal kingdom, this method is undoubtedly correct and legitimate.
From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
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 John Alberger
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 John Knowles
