First published in 1791, John Oswald's seminal work is a cry itself, its grammar often in the vocative case. This work focuses on John and the resistance movement to nascent land, the rise of commercial agriculture, and the growth of industrialization during the 17th and 18th centuries in England.
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This review is from: The Cry of Nature; An Appeal to Mercy and to Justice on Behalf of the Persecuted Animals (Mellen Animal Rights Library, V. 8) (Hardcover)
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(From Wikipedia:) Oswald served in the British Army as a Lieutenant of the Royal Highland Regiment, the forty-second regiment of foot. He was dispatched first to the American Revolution, and then in 1780 to the Malabar coast of India. Oswald's exposure to Hindu vegetarianism in India had an impact on his philosophy which he describes in "The Cry of Nature or An Appeal to Mercy and Justice on Behalf of the Persecuted Animals", published in 1791. This is considered an important work of western vegetarianism. John Oswald, like his contemporary Rousseau argued that modern society was in conflict with man's nature. Oswald argued in "The Cry of Nature or an Appeal to Mercy and Justice on Behalf of the Persecuted Animals", that man is naturally equipped with feelings of mercy and compassion. If each man had to personally experience the death of the animals he ate, so argued Oswald, a vegetarian diet would be far more common. The division of labour, however, allows modern man to eat flesh without experiencing the prompting of man's natural sensitivities, while the brutalization of modern man made him inured to these sensitivities. Although Oswald gave compassion a central place in his philosophy, and was a vegetarian, he was not a pacifist, as evidenced by the fact that he died fighting in the French Revolution. "The Cry of Nature, or An Appeal To Mercy and Justice On Behalf of the Persecuted Animals", 1791. - Online at [...].
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