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The Place of Animals in Human Thought · Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington Martinengo-Cesaresco — chapter 33 of 56 · ~257 words · public domain

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Al Rakîm, 230

Amatongo, 107-109

Amazulu, 107

L’âme est la fonction du cerveau, 357

Ammon, Temple of, 31

Amon Ra, 103

Amritsar, 201

Anaxandrides, 82

Anchorites, 179, 252-254

Andromache, 26

Animals, treatment of, in India, 19; the purgatory of men, 21; slaying of, by Greeks, 24-25; naming of, 26; prophetic powers of, 27-28; talking, 29; Roman treatment of, 45-46; butchery of, at Colosseum, 51; imported for arena, 51-52; humanity of, 53-54; performing, 54-55; Plutarch on kindness to, 64-71; Plutarch on animal intelligence, 67-71; instances of discrimination of, 75-76; domestication of, 90-91; value of, 94-95; excuses for killing, 100; attitude of savages to, 107-108; killing of, by priests, 148-150; Zoroastrian treatment of, 147-157; in sacred books, 188; Hebrew treatment of, 212-220; hunting of, by Moslems, 224-225, 232, 241-243; musical instinct in, 245-246; and the Messiah, 247-252; and saints, 259; stories of, 306-316; theory of Celsus as to intelligence of, 340-344; theory of Porphyry, 344; the Church and humanity, 346; animal prosecutions, 347-351; Renaissance admiration of, 352-353; animals and thought, 355; automata theory, 353-359, 365; societies to protect, 359-360; ill-treatment and immortality, 362; principle of evolution, 363

Antelope, 240

Ants, wisdom of, 76-77; killing of, 149-150; Hebrew proverb, 216; in the Koran, 227; social economy of, 341-342

Apis, 102, 144

Apollo, 246

Apollonius of Tyana, 268-269; 337-340; 345

Apsarases, the, 279-280

Apuleius, 55

Archæological Congress, 95

Archetypes (see Fravashi)

Ardâ Vîrâf, 159-165

Arena, cruelties of the, 45-46

Ariosto, 297

Aristophanes, 28

Aristotle, 58, 78, 80, 269, 340, 362

Arnold, Dr., 364

Arnold, Sir Matthew, 302-303

Aryans, 13, 18, 113-115

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