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David Marr (Political Animal: The Making of Tony Abbott [Quarterly Essay 47])
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Darwin himself, a member of the RSPCA, was more modest in his views and actually quite empathetic toward animals, often describing in his letters and journals their capacity for misery and happiness alike. But today's evolutionary scientists seem to remember only the survival-of-the-fittest part, just as many Christians and Jews remember only the go-forth-and-subdue part of their Bible.
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Matthew Scully (Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy)