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The Quality of Mercy.(Book Review)

National Review

| December 31, 2002 | NEUHAUS, RICHARD JOHN | COPYRIGHT 2002 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy, by Matthew Scully (St. Martin's, 464 pp., $27.95)

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 ...

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