Volume 200 pages
About the book
"Killing for Sport" by various is a guide book that contains different articles on hunting. The book reveals a variety of interesting subjects for modern huntsmen. Some of the notable titles cover economics, agriculture, ethics, and cruelty topics. Contents include: «The Cruelty of Sport», «Shooting», «Hare-Hunting and Otter-Hunting», «Spurious Sports», «The Ethics of Sport», «Sport and Agriculture», «Pheasant or Peasant», «The Cost of Sport», «The Reality», «The Economics of Hunting», etc. No book of sport breathes such a wrathful spirit as this book of humanity. Excerpt: «It is a favourite rhetorical device of the vivisectionists to divert argument from the main question into side issues by instituting a comparison between vivisection and the various forms of field-sports, such as pheasant-shooting, for example. It is hardly necessary that I should point out the futility of such controversial methods; for, as Horace long ago taught us, there is no use in an illustration which merely substitutes one dispute for another. Vivisection may be wrong, though pheasant-shooting be right; while if pheasant-shooting be wrong, it is obviously absurd to appeal to it in aid of the cause of vivisection.»
