"But indeed, a little consideration will soon enable us to account for the ignorance of mankind in this interesting particular; and will teach us, that it solely arises from those baneful habits of perverse reasoning, which have from time to time immemorial taken root in the minds of men, and have at last sunk so deep, as to render their final and general extirpation, an immensely laborious, if not a ridiculous, attempt."
A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes
2 entries in ESTC (1792, 1795).<br>
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See <u>A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes</u> (London: Printed for Edward Jeffrey, 1792).&lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T178971">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading  Edition. A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes, ed. Louise Schutz Boas (Gainesville, FL: Scholars' Facsimile, 1966). &lt;<a href="https://archive.org/details/vindicationofrig00tayl">Link to archive.org</a>&gt;