"Now what is it that moves our very heart and sickens us
so much as cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this: first, that
they have done us no harm; next, that they have no power whatever to
resistance; it is the cowardice and tyranny of which they are the
victims which make their sufferings so especially touching...there is
something so very dreadful, so Satanic in tormenting those who have
never harmed us, and who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in
our power."
-Cardinal Newman
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