Quae propria sunt et minus communicata; ob honor, quae continent, vt animalia vt plantae et amplius; sed id amplius potest esse malj.
"Bacon is Shake-Speare"
Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence
The opinion entertained generally by the classical writers of Greece and Rome, that Man in the first stage of his existence was but just removed from the brutes, is faithfully expressed by Horace in his celebrated lines, which begin:- Quum prorepserunt primis animalia terris.
"The Antiquity of Man"
Charles Lyell
"Jus naturale," says Ulpian, "est quod natura omnia animalia docuit."
"A Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature and Nations"
James Mackintosh