Educated Folly About Animal Minds and Animal Suffering
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Answer me, mechanist, has Nature arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering? Voltaire (1694-1778)
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تاریخ انتشار 2011