Volume 2 — CHAPTER XLIV REGARD FOR THE LOWER ANIMALS
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CHAPTER XLIV
Animals treated with deference for superstitious reasons, pp. 490–493.—Butchers regarded as unclean, p. 493.—Many peoples averse from killing their cattle from economic motives, p. 493 sq.—Domestic animals treated kindly by savages out of sympathy, pp. 494–496.—Savages who are said to be lacking in sympathy for the brute creation, p. 496.—Moral valuation of men’s conduct towards the lower animals among savages, p. 496 sq.—In Brahmanism, p. 497.—In Buddhism, pp. 497, 498, 500.—In Jainism, p. 498 sq.—In Taouism, p. 499.—In China, p. 499 sq.—In Japan, p. 500.—In Zoroastrianism, p. 501 sq.—In Muhammedanism, p. 502 sq.—In ancient Greece and Rome, pp. 503–505.—In Hebrewism, p. 505 sq.—In Christianity, pp. 506–508.—The views of modern philosophers, p. 508.—Of legislators, p. 508 sq.—Indifference to animal suffering a characteristic of public opinion in European countries up to quite modern times, p. 509 sq.—Laws against cruelty to animals, p. 510.—Humane feelings towards animals in Europe, pp. 510–512.—The crusade against vivisection, pp. 512–514.—Explanation of the increasing sympathy with animal suffering in Europe, p. 512 sq.—The influence of human thoughtlessness upon the treatment of the lower animals and upon the moral ideas relating to it, pp. 512–514.