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
Give prominence to the love for their young by which the brute creation is brought into closer connection with the human family.
From The Moral Instruction of Children by Adler, Felix
The brute creation has been taken as an example in support of this opinion; large animals producing one or two young ones, while the smaller species are singularly prolific.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
Even Cardinal Newman said,— 'We have no duties toward the brute creation; there is no relation of justice between them and us.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane
