England had prohibited bull-baiting, cock-fighting, prize fighting, all of which had in their day, no end of logic and sentiment in their favour; and why should she not hold her place among the nations of the earth, and be the first to reduce, within the closest possible limits, the sufferings inflicted by man on the whole animal kingdom?
Lord Shaftesbury, 1801-1885, speech on the second reading of the Cruelty to Animals Bill, May 26, 1876
