Word: heedless
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...animals certainly is an evil. What is the cause of pain in animals? There must have been some interference with the work of the Creative reason. We cannot see all the causes of that interference, but man is one pain-producing cause. Unless the Supreme Reason caused the cruel, heedless, selfish thoughts in man, it is not responsible for the hideous pains which man inflicts. Once more then we are driven to the study of man, to see how it is that he can interfere with nature to produce ugliness and pain, or beauty and pleasure...