Benevolent in example sentence
The Great Ape DebateIn his History of European Morals, published in 1869, the Irish historian and philosopher W.E.H. Lecky wrote:At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world...