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Quiz

Andrew’s Quiz

See if you can identify the authors of the following ethical passages.

1. I would not enter on my list of friends
(Tho graced with polished manners and fine sense,
Yet wanting sensibility) the man
Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.

2. I remember an hypothesis, argued upon by the young students, when I was at St Omers, and maintained with much learning and pleasantry on both sides, Whether, supposing that the flavour of a pig who obtained his death by whipping (per flagellationem extremam) superadded a pleasure upon the palate of a man more intense than any possible suffering we can conceive in the animal, is man justified in using that method of putting the animal to death? I forget the decision.

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