The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not les…

John Stuart Mill
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The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims of the most brutal part of mankind - the lower animals. ✨ John Stuart Mill, Stephen Nathanson (1875). Principles of Political Economy (Abridged): With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy, p.291, Hackett Publishing
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