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Article: Hunting and humanity in Western thought.(In the Company of Animals)
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- Social Research
- Article date:
- September 22, 1995
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FIVE hundred years ago, when Henry VIII occupied the throne of England, a Portuguese mariner named Raphael Hythloday left the company of Amerigo Vespucci's third expedition and travelled south from India into the imaginary countries of Terra Australis Incognita, one of which (so Thomas More assures us) is an island called Utopia. Here Hythloday found a land full of paradoxical excellences. The Utopians worked very little; and yet they were all rich. They abhorred the death penalty; and yet they had little crime. Most of the few criminals they did have were sentenced to terms of temporary slavery, in which they were made to do the menial jobs nobody else wanted to do. And ...
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