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"How pitiful, and what poverty of mind, to have said that the animals
are machines deprived of understanding and feeling . . . has Nature
arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he
might not feel? Has he nerves that he may he incapable of suffering?
People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to
dare to advance that animals are but animated machines . . . It appears
to me, besides, that [such people] can never have observed with
attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among
them the different Voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of
love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange
that they should express so well what they could not feel. . . . They
are endowed with life as we are, because they have the same principles
of life, the same feelings, the same ideas, memory, industry—as we.”
— Voltaire (1694-1778)