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1	A Sensational and Sentimental Rhino, Part 2 In part one of this post I talked about animals as exotic spectacle and the ethics of display. But what did 18th-century audiences think about the sentimental life of these animals being offered for their entertainment?	Aug 14, 2007
2	A Sensational and Sentimental Rhino, Part 1 In the 1740s Clara the rhinoceros sailed from India into the Age of Reason. She arrived in a political world that would soon declare that "all men are created equal" without abolishing slavery or stepping back from the colonizing of Asia, Afr...	Aug 9, 2007