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Quotes from The Morality of Field Sports', The Fortnightly Review — Edward Augustus Freeman

1823–1892 England

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I say then without hesitation that fox-hunting, which ages back may have been a praiseworthy means of ridding the country of a noxious animal, has, in its modern shape, degenerated into a sport of wanton and deliberate cruelty. Strip it of its disguises, and it is that and nothing else.

The Morality of Field Sports', The Fortnightly Review (1869)

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