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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.

  • Morris, Robert (Surveyor), 1702?-1754.
Date:
1746
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C 6x ] very evident ; and the Command given to Noah in order to preferve the Animal Race as well as Man, is apparent in Chap. vi. v. 21. Take thou with thee of all Meat (that is, Herbage) that is eaten, thou Jhalt gather it to thee, that It may be Meat for thee and jor them. It is evident, the Word Meat implies Fruit, Herbage, &c. for the gathering in Meat muft be of the animal Race, if it meant Flefh; and there can be no Founda¬ tion for fuch Meaning, becaufe they were diftinguilh’d particularly to be put in the Ark, ver. 19 and 20 • and alfo in the Verfe above quoted, It fhall be Meat for thee and them ; this is undoubtedly the true and only Meaning of the Command given, Chap. i. Ver. 29 and 30, and which we find no where tranfgrefs’d by the Antediluvian World. I come now to confider the Command given to Noah and his Defendants after the Deluge. In order to this the Author of the Difertation admits of an exprefs Command to refrain from Blood, and even under the moft fevere Reftridtions and Punifhments, Chap. ix. Ver. 4. But fejh with the life thereof (I mean, the blood thereof) fhall ye not eat ; Ver. 3. For purely I will require vour blood, wherein sour lives are, at the hand of every beajl will I require it. I