Volume 28, Number 7 · April 30, 1981
The Beast in Man
By Keith Thomas
Animals' Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress Pennsylvania 18411
by Henry S. Salt, revised edition with a preface by Peter Singer
Society for Animal Rights, 421 South State Street, Clarks Summit,, 232 pp., $9.95
Reckoning with the Beast: Animals, Pain, and Humanity in the Victorian Mind
by James Turner
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 190 pp., $14.00
Anyone who thinks that the concern with animal liberation is merely a fad of the last ten years would do well to consider Henry Salt's Animals' Rights, a work first published in 1892. In his preface to the new reprint Peter Singer, author of the widely celebrated Animal Liberation (1975), justly remarks that modern defenders of animals, himself included, have been able to add relatively little to the case outlined by this half-forgotten writer nearly ninety years ago. Indeed modern opponents of animal rights have produced very few arguments which Salt had not already attempted to answer.
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