Killing for Sport: Essays by Various Writers

KILLING FOR SPORT

This volume is published by Messrs. G. Bell & Sons for the Humanitarian League .

KILLING FOR SPORT
ESSAYS BY VARIOUS WRITERS
WITH A PREFACE BY BERNARD SHAW
Edited by HENRY S. SALT
LONDON G. BELL AND SONS, LTD. YORK HOUSE, PORTUGAL STREET 1915

During the past twenty-five years, chiefly owing to the action of the Humanitarian League in giving continuity to what had previously been only an occasional protest, the subject of certain cruel pastimes, called by the name of “sports,” has attracted a large share of public attention. The position of the League as regards the whole question of “sport”— i.e. , the diversions and amusements of the people—is this, that while heartily approving all such fair and manly recreations as cricket, rowing, football, cycling, the drag-hunt, etc., it would place in an altogether different category what may be called “blood-sports”— i.e. , those amusements which involve the death or torture of sentient beings.