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

Her tender sympathy extended even to the brute creation.

From Memoir of John Howe Peyton in sketches by his contemporaries, together with some of his public and private letters, etc., also a sketch of Ann M. Peyton by Various

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

Close to the brute creation, it seemed, his nature lay.

From The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories by Blackwood, Algernon