A reasonable plea for the animal creation : being a reply to a late pamphlet, intituled, A dissertation on the voluntary eating of blood, &c. In which is shewed, I. From the nature and reason of things, that we have no right to destroy, much less to eat of any thing which has life. II. That if the human food at first was only the produce of the earth, and by positive command made immutable, then that law or command must be immutably eternal / By Robert Morris.

  • Morris, Robert (Surveyor), 1702?-1754.
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A reasonable plea for the animal creation : being a reply to a late pamphlet, intituled, A dissertation on the voluntary eating of blood, &c. In which is shewed, I. From the nature and reason of things, that we have no right to destroy, much less to eat of any thing which has life. II. That if the human food at first was only the produce of the earth, and by positive command made immutable, then that law or command must be immutably eternal / By Robert Morris. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed for M. Cooper ... and sold by W. Shropshire and J. Brindley ... and J. Millan, 1746.

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iv, iii-vi, 7-68 pages ; 19 cm (8vo)

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ESTC T168355

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Publishers' advertisement, t.p. verso
"A dissertation on the voluntary eating of blood" was published anonymously in London, 1745.--Morris refers to the author by the initials "S.D" (p. 8)
ESTC t168355
Copy 2 Supplier/Donor: Paton estate Note: Disbound. From the collection of Sir William Paton

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