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

But between angels and men a much greater resemblance subsists, than between men and the brute creation; because the two former seem capable of improvement.

From Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories by Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

It is on this division that Aristotle founded his belief that the brute creation had not the faculty of reminiscence, although he allowed them to possess memory.

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