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The time will come when the civilized man will feel that the rights of every living creature on the earth are as sacred as his own. Anything short of this cannot be perfect civilization.
The time will come when the civilized man will feel that the rights of every living creature on the earth are as sacred as his own. Anything short of this cannot be perfect civilization.
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- David Starr Jordan
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- Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)
Complete signed selection 64; printed byline: David Starr Jordan; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901
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