Alfred Payson Terhune (born December 21, 1872) is famous (or used to be) as the author of dog books, collie dog books, wonderful collie dog books. Before the author of "Gray Dawn", "Lad, A Dog", and a pack of other books, became famous as a dog book author, Terhune published in 1916, a historian's account of certain scandalous women, and it is from his "Superwomen", that I quote this cat scene. (You need to remember first that Nelson was a famous military hero, and had philandered a bit before his triumphant return to England.)
"I once had a collie pup who had never chanced to be in close quarters with a cat. I was privileged to see him when he made his first gleefully fearless attack on one, ignorant of the potential anguish tucked away behind a feline's velvety paws. Somehow--with no disrespect to the great man--I always think of that poor, about-to-be-disillusioned puppy, when I try to visualize the picture of Nelson's homecoming."
Onora Sylvia O'Neill (August 23, 1941) is a British thinker. She studied at Oxford and received a doctorate from Harvard. After a noted career, in 1992, she accepted the post of Principal of N ewnham College, Cambridge, and since 2006 she has been Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge. Her 1997 paper, "Environmental Values, Anthroporphism, and Speciesism" contains a timely argument in which Dr. O'Neill, (she prefers that title to the "Baroness" to which her elevation to the peerage allows) points out inadequacies in the use of the term speciesism to argue against according humans more ethical rights than aspects of the non human world. A viewpoint that puts " a person torturing a cat is on a par with a cat torturing a bird," is not one she finds supportable. The link is to a downloadable version of this paper. We have this picture of Onora O'Neill, in 2002, at Newnham College: We meet in the Principal's lodge at Ne
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