The Quality of Mercy

RICHARD JOHN NEUHAUS

IT makes a difference that the author is a Christian and a political conservative, and he intends that the difference should decisively distinguish his advocacy on behalf of the animal kingdom from those who promote “animal rights” at the expense of the singularity and dignity of the human. Scully’s title is, of course, from the first chapter of Genesis: “Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.’”

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RICHARD JOHN NEUHAUS

IT makes a difference that the author is a Christian and a political conservative, and he intends that the difference should decisively distinguish his advocacy on behalf of the animal kingdom from those who promote “animal rights” at the expense of the singularity and dignity of the human. Scully’s title is, of course, from the first chapter of Genesis: “Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.’”