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
Thus, I may say, was the art of healing instinctively taught, and not unfrequently the brute creation guided the efforts of humanity; when man contemplated the means animals resorted to when labouring under disease.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
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.
