Anna Brownell Jameson
Anna Brownell Jameson
British writer, feminist, art historian
(1794-1860)
“It would seem as if the primitive Christian, by laying so much stress
upon a future life in contradistinction to this life, and placing the lower
creatures out of the pale of hope, placed them at the same time out of the
pale of sympathy, and thus laid the foundation for this utter disregard of
animals in the light of our fellow creatures…”
[Ed. Note: This quotation has been attributed to Mrs. Jameson, but from our
research it appears that she was quoting Dr. Thomas Arnold (1795-1842) who
was headmaster of Rugby School, as well as a preacher.]
“The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of
immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their fullest extent, the
capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.”
~ Winter Studies and Summer Rambles
“I do not remember ever to have heard the kind and just treatment of animals enforced on Christian principles or made the subject of a sermon.”
