¿Dónde ha quedado nuestra humanidad?
’There is in man a disposition to compassion as generally diffused as his other instincts. Newton had cultivated this sentiment of humanity, and he extended it to the lower animals. With Locke he was strongly convinced that God has given to them a proportion of ideas, and the same feelings, which he has to us … ’ ’In truth, without humanity, a virtue which comprehends all virtues, the name of philosopher is little deserved’.
- Voltaire, ’Éléments de la philosophie de Newton’, 1738.
[’Pythagoras advocating vegetarianism’; Figures: Peter Paul Rubens; Still Life: Frans Snyders; between 1618 and 1620]:-
http://libredelacteos.com/historia/por-que-pitagoras-detestaba-las-habas/
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