Humanitarianism
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humanitarianism · humanity · humane feeling · the crusade against cruelty · the humanitarian movement
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Growing hatred of physical and moral suffering that united reformers of every political and religious stripe and drove a series of humane legal reforms after 1800.
Many of the reforms belonging to the era of legislative quiescence bear a humanitarian character.
This passionate humanitarianism, opposed though it was to much popular indifference as regards various forms of cruelty, was shared by philanthropists of every school, with many men whose fear of Jacobinical principles made them shun the name of reformers.
others are reforms either necessitated (as was to all appearance the Act of Union with Ireland) by the irresistible requirements of the day, or else demanded by, and a concession to, the humanitarianism which from 1800 onwards exerted an ever increasing influence.