The horrible suffering thousands of helpless creatures have undergone through the process of vivisection is heartrending.
Where would medical research be were it not forvivisection (torture) and killing animals for experiment in the interest of science?
In vivisection a man takes a simpler creature and subjects it to subtleties which no one but man could inflict on him, and for which man is therefore gravely and terribly responsible.
Vivisection is not done by a man whose wife is dying.
The sound moral rule in such matters as vivisection always presents itself to me in this way.
I have heard humanitarians, for instance, speak of vivisectionand field sports as if they were the same kind of thing.
Unless some natural resolution of the discord came, Heaven help her, and keep her from some sudden cruel open operation on the heart of Truth, some unconvincing vivisection of a soul!
We prefer to keep an open mind about Lady Gwendolen Rivers' foreboding anent that little bottle of Indian poison, until vivisection has shown us, more plainly than at present, how brain secretes Man's soul.
The question of vivisectionis not a difficult one.
Moreover, except for a few glaring instances, vivisection has involved little cruelty; and the crusade against it, though actuated by a noble impulse, has rested upon misrepresentation of facts and exaggeration of evils.
Or free to select a human victim for vivisection whenever experts deemed it wise!
I could prove by many practical instances that even my illustrations are not exaggerated, by many placid proposals I have heard for thevivisection of criminals, or by the filthy incident of Dr.
For this reason: that the difference between torture and vivisection is not in any way affected by the fierceness or mildness of either.
They do not know what their own opinions are, until the victim of vivisection tells them.
A few years ago The Outlook published an editorial opposing a change in the laws of New York relating to vivisection (for a part of it, see p.
Never allow vivisectionin any form whatever, either in school or at home.
However, that is what the Daily Mail tells us, and it also states that the Anti-Vivisection Societies were unanimous in condemning this circular, and very properly so.
I do not think any one can have a real knowledge of the truth and remain in touch with it, but I certainly agreed with the Anti-Vivisection Societies in condemning such a circular as that.
It is an article headed "Killing by Prayer," and the article goes on to say that a certain circular has been sent round to the different hospitals and other places where the study of vivisection goes forward to this effect.
Let us try, then, to relearn with regard to German depth; the only thing necessary for the purpose is a little vivisection of the German soul.
I also know that all that has been ascertained by vivisection could have been done by the dissection of the dead.
No one has ever made so strong an argument against vivisection in the alleged interests of science as lngersoll did in a speech a few years ago.
By the same reasoning he will justify the vivisection of animals and patients.
Mr. Goldwin Smith paid tribute to the justice of our protests against both vivisection and the Eton hare-hunt, as may be seen in two letters which he wrote to me, now included in his published Correspondence.
Reformers of all classes must recognize that it is useless to preach peace by itself, or socialism by itself, or anti-vivisection by itself, or vegetarianism by itself, or kindness to animals by itself.
It is fitting, perhaps, that the twin tyrannies of Flogging and Vivisection should be linked together as Lawson Tait saw them, for they are indeed kindred expressions of one barbarous spirit.
Not the least valuable part of the League’s duties was to put a check on foolish talk of that sort; and in this we had the satisfaction of being warmly supported by so distinguished an opponent of vivisection as Professor Lawson Tait.
The opening clause of his first chapter, "When I first gave my mind to vivisection as a means of discovering the motions and uses of the heart," throws a strong light on his special method of experimental investigation.
Vivisection is going to prove a boon to suffering humanity.
He further said that something must be done to stop vivisection in our common schools and colleges; that ordinary pupils have no need for even lessons in dissecting dead bodies.
Out of it all I learned that he considered vivisection (cutting up live animals) not only unnecessary to the interests of humanity and science, but a most criminal proceeding.
He denounced the vivisection professors as bloodthirsty scoundrels, who, under the pretense of making scientific research, are merely satisfying a bloodthirsty curiosity of their own.
Vivisection he abhorred, and in the controversies which were tearing the scientific and philanthropic world asunder in the last years of his life, no one was a more determined opponent of vivisection than he.
The simple fact that we have just enunciated pleads loudly enough for the cause of vivisection to make it useless to defend it.
Although Magendie is rightly considered the true initiator of experimentation upon living beings, the practice of vivisection is as old as science itself.
So, then, vivisection is not, as usually thought, a diabolical invention of modern science.
This principle gives the warrant and the limit to vivisection and to the killing of the lower animals for food (Gen.
Every play is a dissection, or a vivisection rather; for these people who suffer so helplessly, and are shown us so calmly in their agonies, are terribly alive.
There is still one preliminary topic on which I feel that it is desirable to touch before proceeding to give an account of my experiments, and this has reference to the vivisection which many of these experiments have entailed.
But in saying what I have to say in this connection I can afford to be brief, inasmuch as it is not needful to discuss the so-called vivisection question.
Thus, before any rational scruples can arise with regard to the vivisection of a living organism, some reasonable ground must be shown for supposing that the organism, besides being living, is also capable of suffering.
The question of vivisection is but a part, indeed a very small part, of the much larger problem as to the relation of men to the lower life which is about them in their fields and in the wilderness.
To my understanding, the present turn of sympathetic people against vivisection indicates that the movement of the emotions has, as is often the case, been diverted from the fittest path.
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.
Or any other topic connected with Vivisection on which you may feel the spirit most to move you to write.
I am inclined to think that writing against the bigots about vivisection is as hopeless as stemming a torrent with a reed.
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