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↵i Lectures on Ethics, translated by Louis Infield (Indianapolis, Indiana, USA: Hackett Publishing Co., 1963): ‘Our duties towards animals are merely indirect duties towards humanity. Animal nature has analogies to human nature, and by doing our duties to animals in respect of manifestations which correspond to manifestations of human nature, we indirectly do our duty towards humanity.’ (p. 239)
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