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Emil Edward Kusel
A California writer with strong convictions, he is best known for Humanitarian Philosophy, a 1912 work that argues passionately for kindness toward animals and a more compassionate way of living. His writing has an earnest, reform-minded spirit that still feels strikingly direct.
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Humanitarian Philosophy, 4th Edition
by Emil Edward Kusel
About the author
Born in Oroville, California, in 1867, Emil Edward Kusel came from a pioneer Jewish family in Northern California. Sources on his life are limited, but records connected with his family and later memorial listings place him in California and show that he lived from 1867 to 1941.
He is chiefly remembered today as the author of Humanitarian Philosophy, published in 1912 and preserved by Project Gutenberg. In that book, he makes a forceful case for humane treatment of animals and for ethical consistency in everyday life.
Although he is not widely known now, Kusel's surviving work gives a clear sense of his voice: serious, morally driven, and unafraid to argue for what he believed was a more civilized society.