INDEX
Reading edition
Accidents involved by hunting, 66
Adams, Maurice, on cost of sport, 45 et seq.
Afforestation conflicts with game preservation, 53
Agriculture ruined by sport, 38
Athletic exercises compared with blood-sports, 129
Badgers as “vermin,” 88
“Bag,” a six weeks’, 104
Balance of Nature upset, 40
“Battue,” horrors of the, 83
“Battue-shooting,” 13
Beagles:
Eton, 18;
Tom Brown on Rugby, 125;
forbidden by original statutes, 117;
not legalised until 1871, 117;
Dr. Warre’s attitude re, 116;
strength of the opposition to, 124
Big-game hunting:
Mr. Ernest Bell on, 101;
monotony of, 101, 102
“Blooding,” 155
Blood-sports:
not manly, 56, 112, 136;
at schools, 116
Buchanan, Robert, quoted, 69, 150
Buckhounds, abolition of Royal, 100, 130
Buddha, humane teachings of, 29
Burmese, the, and compassion, 29
Burns, Robert, on shooting, 93
Byron, Lord, on angling, 178
Callousness of fox-hunting, the, 95
Carlisle otter hounds, 30
Carpenter, Edward, on sport and agriculture, 34 et seq.
Carted deer, 22
Civilised versus savage life, 132
Clay-pigeons and live pigeons, 166
Colquhoun, John, on the poacher, 81
Compassion taught by Buddha, 29
Compensation, farmers and, 37
Cornfields damaged by mice and sparrows, 40
Coursing, 170
Cricket compared with hunting, 67
Cruel sports not public benefits, 60
Cruelties of stag-hunting, 10
Cruelty, definition of, 2
“Cub-hunting,” barbarities of, 9
Cultivated area of Great Britain, 53
Deer, carted, “accidents” to, 22
Deer-forests:
acreage of, 84;
effects of, 84
De Quincey’s satire, 142
Dixie, Lady Florence, quoted, 163
Dogs, gamekeepers’, 76
Drag-hunt versus stag-hunt, 162
Drag-hunting a pleasurable sport, 99, 163
Durham, Lord, defends rabbit-coursing, 27
Economics of hunting, 60 et seq.
Elephants, extermination of, 105
“Enclosure Act,” 71
Eton Beagles, 18;
eminent opponents of, 124;
hare-hunt, the, 116;
sports, brutality of, 117 et seq.
Evolution and animal kinship, 33
Expenditure on hunting, 65
Explosive bullets, 113
Farmers and compensation, 37
Farmers injured by hunting, 64
Field, The, on tame-deer hunting, 24
Fishing, 174
“Food-supply” fallacy, the, 83
Fortescue, Hon. J., quoted, 109
Fox, the hunted, 6, 98
Foxes “made in Germany,” 35
Fox-hunting, 5 et seq.;
excuses for, 8;
H. B. M. Watson on, 95;
illogical, 97, 98
“Foxology,” Dr. Lang’s, 135
“Game,” animals included as, 71
Gamekeepers:
brutality of, 79, 86;
Joseph Arch on, 75;
Justice Vaughan Williams and, 76;
increase of, 39;
Mr. Lloyd George on, 39
Game Laws:
facts about the, 69 et seq.;
a legal anomaly, 70;
raison d’être of, 71;
popular dislike of, 72
Grand Duke’s exploit, 103
Gravid animals, hunting of, 158
Greenwood, George, M.P., on cruelty of sport, 1 et seq.
Grouse-moors and farmers, 38
Hare-hunting, 16;
Sir Thomas More on, 16
Hedgehogs as “vermin,” 88
Heron, destruction of the, 41, 90
Home Office, the, and Game Laws, 74
Hudson, W. H., quoted, 87 et seq.
Hunt, Leigh, quoted, 133, 175
Hunter, the, as a “lover of animals,” 93
Hunting:
expensiveness of, 62;
a limited recreation, 66;
a rich man’s sport, 62
Instincts, “God-planted,” 132
Japanese, prowess of the, 57
Johnston, Sir Harry:
on big-game killing, 114;
on gun-sportsmen, 93;
on wild life, 85
Justice ignored in Game Law administration, 74
Justices of the Peace as game-preservers, 73
Kropotkin’s, Prince, estimate on produce of soil, 53
Land, effect of Game Laws on, 72
Legislation affected by hunting, 67
“Live bait,” cruelty of using, 108
Lloyd, E. B., on destruction of wild life, 85 et seq.
Londonderry’s, Lord, economic argument, 51
“Lost” animals, sufferings of, 110
“Lust, the blood,” 113
Lyte, Sir H. Maxwell, on Eton barbarities, 117, 126
Martin, Howard, on benefits of sport, 49
Meredith, George, quoted, 94
Mice and cornfields, 40
Modern sport not heroic, 58
Monck, W. H. S., on economics of hunting, 60 et seq.
Moral defence of sport lacking, 7, 111
Natural versus unnatural history, 94
Nightingales, destruction of, 89
Nyasaland licences, 114
Otter hunt at Longtown, 30
Otter hunting, 18, 19, 160
Penal servitude for night poaching, 75
Penalties for trespass, 74
Pheasant shooting and vivisection, 1
Pheasants, artificially reared, 13, 36, 51, 94
Pigeon-shooting:
not true sport, 21;
Lord Randolph Churchill on, 166;
prohibited at Hurlingham, 22, 167
Poacher:
character of the, 80;
the, as gamekeeper, 81;
described, 81
Poachers, illegal sentences on, 74
Polo and hunting compared, 67
Preservation of game, 15
Professionalism spoiling sport, 59
Rabbit-coursing, 24
Rabbits, a nuisance to farmers, 39
Recreations:
best available to largest numbers, 62;
essentials of, 62-64
Remorse of the hunter, 106
Reserves for wild animals, 44
Ribblesdale, Lord, and stag-hunting, 145, 157
Roosevelt, T., quoted, 107
Rousseau, J. J., on compassion, 31, 32
Salt, Henry S., on Sportsmen’s fallacies, 130 et seq.
Sargent, Henry R., defends sport, 45
Schopenhauer and the basis of morality, 31, 32
Select Committee of 1846, 80
Sentimentalism versus humanitarianism, 96
Seton-Karr, H. W., 131
Seton-Karr’s, Sir H., fallacy, 137
Shooting, 11 et seq.
Small holdings versus sporting interests, 42
Sparrows and cornfields, 40
Spoiling other people’s pleasure, 179
Sport:
importance of ethical issues, 1;
as a fetish, 4;
cost of, 45-59;
confusion in the use of the term, 56
Sports:
morally unjustifiable if cruel, 2;
two kinds of, 3;
spurious, 20 et seq., 58;
and agriculture, Edward Carpenter on, 34 et seq.
“Sportsman,” a popular appellation, 3
Sportsmen’s claims criticised, 139 et seq.;
logic, 8;
fallacies, 130
Stag-hunting, cruelties of, 10
Steel traps, barbarity of, 82
Torture unnecessary, 96
Unmanliness of pheasant-shooting, 57
Unregistered gamekeepers, 80
Unsportsmanlike devices, 104
“Vermin” exterminated by game-preservers, 88
Vivisection and field sports compared, 1
Wallace, A. R., on gamekeepers, 76
War, sport as training for, 149
Warre, Dr., his defence of the Eton hare-hunt, 116, 123
Watson, H. B. Marriott, on fox-hunting, 95 et seq.
Weasels as “vermin,” 88
Wild life, destruction of, 85 et seq.
Women and hunting, 11, 19
Woodpecker destroyed by gamekeeper, 89
Wounded victims of sport, 14
Young, need of humane teaching for the, 18
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