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Christmas is the season when people run out of money before they run out of friends. Larry Wilde (?)

‘A merry Christmas, uncle God save you’ cried a cheerful voice. ‘Bah’ said Scrooge. ‘Humbug’ Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870), English novelist

Religion has never befriended the cause of humaneness. Its monstrous doctrine of eternal punishment and the torture of the damned underlies much of the barbarity with which man has treated man; and the deep division imagined by the Church between … Continue reading →

When the Huntsman claims praise for the killing of foxes, Which else would bring ruin to farmer and land, Yet so kindly imports them, preserves them, assorts them, There’s a discrepance I’d fain understand. When the Butcher makes boast of … Continue reading →

I advance no exaggerated or fanciful claim for Vegetarianism. It is not, as some have asserted, a “panacea” for human ills; it is something much more rational–an essential part of the modern humanitarian movement, which can make no true progress … Continue reading →

I have now shown what I mean by those “humanities of diet,” without which, as it seems to me, it is idle to dispute over the question of the “rights” of animals. A lively argument was lately raging between zoophilists … Continue reading →