Animal welfare; Hunting -- Moral and ethical aspects; Hunting -- Religious aspects
Pheasants, artificially reared, 13, 36, 51, 94
Pigeon-shooting:
not true sport, 21;
Lord Randolph Churchill on, 166;
prohibited at Hurlingham, 22, 167
Poacher:
character of the, 80;
the, as gamekeeper, 81;
described, 81
Poachers, illegal sentences on, 74
Polo and hunting compared, 67
Preservation of game, 15
Professionalism spoiling sport, 59
Rabbit-coursing, 24
Rabbits, a nuisance to farmers, 39
Recreations:
best available to largest numbers, 62;
essentials of, 62-64
Remorse of the hunter, 106
Reserves for wild animals, 44
Ribblesdale, Lord, and stag-hunting, 145, 157
Roosevelt, T., quoted, 107
Rousseau, J. J., on compassion, 31, 32
Salt, Henry S., on _Sportsmen’s fallacies_, 130 _et seq._
Sargent, Henry R., defends sport, 45
Schopenhauer and the basis of morality, 31, 32
Select Committee of 1846, 80
Sentimentalism _versus_ humanitarianism, 96
Seton-Karr, H. W., 131
Seton-Karr’s, Sir H., fallacy, 137
Shooting, 11 _et seq._
Small holdings _versus_ sporting interests, 42
Sparrows and cornfields, 40
Spoiling other people’s pleasure, 179
Sport:
importance of ethical issues, 1;
as a fetish, 4;
cost of, 45-59;
confusion in the use of the term, 56
Sports:
morally unjustifiable if cruel, 2;
two kinds of, 3;
spurious, 20 _et seq._, 58;
and agriculture, Edward Carpenter on, 34 _et seq._
“Sportsman,” a popular appellation, 3
Sportsmen’s claims criticised, 139 _et seq._;
logic, 8;
fallacies, 130
Stag-hunting, cruelties of, 10
Steel traps, barbarity of, 82
Torture unnecessary, 96
Unmanliness of pheasant-shooting, 57
Unregistered gamekeepers, 80
Unsportsmanlike devices, 104
“Vermin” exterminated by game-preservers, 88
Vivisection and field sports compared, 1
Wallace, A. R., on gamekeepers, 76
War, sport as training for, 149
Warre, Dr., his defence of the Eton hare-hunt, 116, 123
Watson, H. B. Marriott, on fox-hunting, 95 _et seq._
Weasels as “vermin,” 88
Wild life, destruction of, 85 _et seq._
Women and hunting, 11, 19
Woodpecker destroyed by gamekeeper, 89
Wounded victims of sport, 14
Young, need of humane teaching for the, 18
THE END
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