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 VIVISECTION 
 
 ITS FOLLIES AND CRUELTIES, 
 
 AND 
 
 THE WAY TO FIGHT IT. 
 
 AN ADDRESS DELiVEKEU BY 
 
 WALTER R. HADWEN, Esq., 
 
 M.D.. L.R.C P., M.R.C.S.. L-S, A. ,&€,., 
 OF GLOCCESTERs 
 
 Ai the Annua! Meeiing of the British Union for the Abolimn 
 of Vi'visedioTir held at Cdxton HaU^ Westminster^ 
 
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Famous and noble old Dr. Johnson, of 
 England characteriaed vivisectors as "a race of 
 wretches, wlu). with knives, poisons, and many 
 other devilish contrivances of torture, pretend 
 to get knowledge, though at the expense of their 
 own humanity.** 
 
 **Kin(| hearts are more than coronets," 
 
 THE FOLLIES AND CRUELTIES 
 
 OF VIVISECTION. 
 
 AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BY DR. HADWEN, 
 
 At the Caxton Hall, Westminster, July VSth, 1905. 
 
 
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 RESOLUTION MOVED BY THE REV. F. B. MEYER, B.A. 
 
 That this meeting condemns the practice of vivisection, and calls for 
 its prohibition by law on the following grounds: (i) That it is opposed to 
 morality, being inseparable from cruelty; (2) that it is opposed to true 
 science, being uncertain in its results ; (3) that the dangerous growth of 
 the revolting system of serumtherapy, the enormous yearly increase in the 
 number of experiments, and the strong bias evinced by the Government 
 inspectors, give evidence of the futility of restriction and the necessity for 
 drastic measures in dealing with a growing evil. 
 
 Dr. Hadwen, in seconding the above resolution, said : — 
 Everyone will admit that the resolution before the meeting is 
 a comprehensive one — in short, that vivisection as practised to-day 
 is cruel, immoral, unscientific, and opposed to the best methods 
 of research. It plainly indicates also the policy of this Society, 
 which aims at nothing short of the total abolition of a cowardly 
 and un-Christian practice. We believe in no half-and-half measures 
 in dealing with it ; we believe vivisection to be a sin against the 
 moral law, and we decline to play with it by proposing futile 
 measures of restriction through which a coach and four could 
 drive with the greatest ease. We are confident that it is far 
 easier and more politic to fight with a total abolition Bill in our 
 hands than with one of restriction, because in the former case we 
 fight on the side of principle — that the thing in itself is wrong ; 
 
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 whilst in prosecuting restriction we are sacrificing principle, rob- 
 bing ourselves of our most powerful weapon of attack, and admit- 
 ting, in effect, that there may be something in vivisection after all. 
 We are true and genuine anti-vivisectionists in every sense of the 
 word. (Applause.) 
 
 The Morality of the Question. 
 
 Now there are three great objects that sway mankind— three 
 prime motives which impel men forward in the great struggle of 
 existence. 
 
 I. — The attainment of wealth or honour. 
 
 2. — The attainment of health. 
 
 3. — The attainment of knowledge. 
 
 I believe I am correct in placing these several ambitions in this 
 order. No one can deny that the question of the almighty dollar 
 has more to do with every department of public and private life 
 than any other matter. Health is sought by all classes. Know- 
 ledge claims, perhaps, a smaller number of votaries than those of 
 the former classes, but where she sits as goddess her rule is im- 
 perious in the extreme. 
 
 To attain these objects various methods are pursued, which 
 appeal to many subsidiary emotions, and the methods vary In 
 accordance with the idiosyncracies, habits, or training, of the 
 
 pursuer. 
 
 Now there is one path along which men travel towards the 
 attainment of all these three objects at one and the same time— 
 namelv that of vivisection. It is this fashionable and mysterious 
 pursuit which yields honour, emoluments and professional status ; 
 it is urged to be the only scientific means of settling most problems 
 of health, and it is credited with being the source of practically 
 all medical knowledge. Vivisection, with its ramifications, has 
 become one of the greatest commercial enterprises of the day. 
 
 Now, I should be the last to assert that men who labour in the 
 [Hirsuit of knowledge calculated to produce brilliant results in 
 
 The Angel of Mercy passeth by on the 
 
 other side and hath no tears to shed when 
 
 j th*f>-M«l man dies. so. 9 (OVER) 
 
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 lessening the sum total of human disease should not be rewarded. 
 Such men are deserving of all the praise, honour, and reward we 
 can bestow upon them — always providing that the means by which 
 the alleged benefits to health and knowledge are sought for are 
 consistent with the demands of justice, rectitude, and manly con- 
 duct. (Hear, hear.) 
 
 If I am asked, Is the practice of vivisection consistent with 
 these qualities ? I answer emphatically ATo. (Cheers.) 
 
 I do not ask at this stage. Have brilliant discoveries in methods 
 of treatment been obtained thereby? Are such brilliant discoveries, 
 judging by past experience, possible? or Is vivisection consistent 
 with the laws of science? To all such questions I should still 
 reply No. But it would be a cold, unreasoning soul that would 
 argue in favour of an object that was scientifically right, but 
 admitted to be morally wrong. I feel that a morally wrong pro- 
 cess can never be held to be justifiable, even though certain bene- 
 ficial results might in all probability be attained thereby. (Ap- 
 plause. 
 
 It appears to me that extremely cruel and naturally unjustifiable 
 actions perpetrated against innocent fellow-creatures incapable of 
 resistance can never be held to be necessary in order to discover 
 secrets for our own benefit. It is simply a repetition of the Spanish 
 Inquisition applied to lower animals. To admit such a theory is 
 to admit God as an ogre compared with whom the fetish of the 
 African medicine man of long ages ago sinks into insignificance, 
 and it puts an estimate upon human necessities which is far 
 beyond their market value. (Hear, hear.) 
 
 The Plea of Restriction. 
 
 To say that you will render an act, which is immoral in itself, 
 a justifiable act, by ensuring, as far as possible, that that act be 
 painless, might have some claim upon the consideration of nervous 
 and accommodating humanitarians, were the grounds upon which 
 the specious plea is based absolutely reliable. Now, what is the _ 
 
 We can easily run from these few premises 
 to the full realization that there is a passion of 
 cruelty still sweeping along in our world and 
 our country— a passion which should be met and 
 be eliminated more perfectly from the human 
 heart. It was the disgrace of the past ; it is the 
 DEEPER INFAMY of the present because the cul- 
 ture of the race has moved forward since thfi 
 times of Nero and Catherine de Medici. 
 
The good and great Lord Shaftsbury of 
 
 "the tliought 
 
 England, said about vivisection 
 of this diabolical system haunts and disturbs 
 ' me night and day. 
 
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 actual basis upon which such a result is proposed to be effected? 
 It is this : — 
 
 That whenever a cutting or other severe operation is to be 
 performed, a Government inspector shall be present in order to see 
 that the animal operated upon is fully under the influence of an 
 anaesthetic. 
 
 Now there are various fallacies associated with this suggestion : 
 It has been stated by the recognised mouthpiece of the Vivisectors, 
 Mr. Stephen Paget, that the injection of morphia beneath the skin 
 of the animal is absolutely necessary to keep the animal at rest. 
 If the administration of morphia be allowed, as it must be allowed 
 under any circumstance, and, indeed, is allowed in the policy of the 
 Restrictionists, no Government inspector, however desirous of 
 carrying out his duties, could be absolutely certain that the sub- 
 ject was not under the influence of the narcotic rather than of an 
 anaesthetic. And should he happen to be an inspector who holds 
 the convenient theory that morphia itself is an anaesthetic, there 
 would be very little hope for the creature whose interest he was 
 supposed to safeguard. 
 
 Moreover, the absolute necessity, in consequence of an animal's 
 physical conformation, that it sliould be firmly fixed to the opera- 
 ting table so that it would be powerless to move, places the kindest- 
 hearted of Government inspectors at a great disadvantage in seek- 
 ing to carry out his duties. The animal is partially narcotised by 
 morphia and fright (or the morphia may be omitted) ; it is fixed 
 firmly to a carefully-devised board, probably gagged, and its faqe 
 covered by a mask ; the corneal reflexes under such conditions are 
 untrustworthy. In what way, then, is he to judge if the animal is 
 anaesthetised effectually or not? A mechanical anaesthetic spray 
 may probably do its work, but ever and anon must come the 
 warning not to push it too far or the animal will be lost. 
 
 The whole conditions are necessarily different from the anaesthe- 
 tisation of the human subject. And if the inspector happen to be, 
 as he most likely would be, a friend to the vivisector and to vivi- 
 
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 section, his conscience would be even more easily satisfied, and 
 the risk to the animal would be that much the greater. 
 
 Now I ask any one of my auditors to put himself in the 
 position of a dog under these circumstances, helplessly strapped 
 to a board, with a Government inspector specially appointed by 
 the Home Office standing by, with the A.C.E. spray doing its 
 beneficent work, with a hypodermic of morphia circulating through 
 the blood stream ; in fact, every precaution known to science and 
 to the State at your behest, and then tell me how you would like 
 it? Could you say in encouraging a system of this sort that you 
 are fulfilling the injunction, *' Do unto others as you would that 
 they should do unto you "? (Applause.) 
 
 And yet this system of inspectorship and anaesthetisation, which 
 upon the face of it is more or less a farce, is dangled before us by 
 
 certain misguided anti-vivisectionists as the magnificent system 
 
 of compromise by which animals are to be saved under the specious 
 
 cry of " half a loaf is better than none." My answer is, for God's 
 
 sake let me starve rather than give me bread of this description — 
 
 a diet that can only prolong my misery under the fallacious guise 
 
 of protecting me from it. (Loud cheers.) 
 
 The Only Effective Policy. 
 
 The long and the short of the matter is that in practical politics 
 you cannot separate painless from painful vivisection. The pursuit 
 of "painless" vivisection under the hollow cry of restriction is the 
 pursuit of a will-o'-the-wisp. The only method of dealing with 
 a gigantic evil of this description is by its total abolition. We say, 
 like the Japanese to the Russians, " You are wholly in the wrong : 
 we have proved you to be in the wrong, we have exposed your 
 tactics of oppression and aggression ; we have smashed your great 
 fortress of excuses ; we have sunk your ironclads of misrepresenta- 
 tion, defeated your armies of plausibility, and captured or rendered 
 useless your worn-out weapons of defence, and now we demand 
 your surrender. It is not for us to approach you with offers of 
 armistice or compromise, or to dilly-dally about quantities of 
 chloroform or fraudulent inspectorships, or limited inoculations ; 
 
( 6 ) 
 
 we say, Clear out from the whole disputed territory, from the Korea 
 and the Manchuria of laboratory devilries, from the Port Arthur 
 of legalised wrong, and let us have liberty — absolute liberty for 
 those we fight for, for the empire of helpless creaturehood for 
 which we plead. (Cheers.) 
 
 But I turn from the cruelty and immorality of the practice to 
 a consideration of its professed scientific exactitude, and will give 
 just one instance of its unreliability and uselessness. 
 
 Imperial Cancer Research Fund. 
 
 During the past week the public Press has published lengthy 
 reports of a meeting of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund held 
 at Marlborough House under the presidency of H.R.H. the Prince 
 of Wales. The annual report, which was laid before the meeting 
 by Sir William Church, was strange reading. Apparently the past 
 year has been spent in the wholesale torture of mice. Now, I am 
 not going to start a society for the protection of vermin from 
 destruction, as I admit that there are conditions under which 
 vermin must be got rid of, but I not only object to torturing rabbits 
 in steel traps, but I also object to slowly dragging out the death 
 agony of mice by developing growths of cancer in their sensitive 
 frames. Those are not processes which are worthy of English- 
 men, and certainly not of men of science, and I can only regret that 
 this latter practice should have been unwittingly countenanced by 
 the heir to the British throne. (Hear, hear.) 
 
 Now I will quote a sample of the so-called scientific story which 
 was narrated at Marlborough House by Sir William Church. He 
 said : *' Professor von Leyden, of Berlin, was kind enough to send 
 us a live mouse which had a tumour which had been transplanted 
 through three generations in Berlin wild mice, together with twenty 
 Berlin wild mice. 47*3 per cent, of the transplantations made into 
 the twenty Berlin wild mice were successful, whilst the transplan- 
 tations Into London wild mice gave only i'4 per cent, of success, 
 and in London tame mice the proportion was even less." So it is 
 quite clear that both the wild and tame mice of London are dead 
 ai^ainst the dumping oF German manufactures upon English soil. 
 (Laughter.) These scientists, knowing what was coming 
 
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 off, ought to have had Mr. Joseph Chamberlain in the 
 chair. (Renewed laughter.) At all events, the late Colo- 
 nial Secretary will now be able to say that the very humblest 
 citizens of the greatest capital of the mightiest Empire in the 
 world are at least opposed to free trade in disease, and would 
 support — to a mouse, any protection Bill he chose to introduce. 
 This interesting refusal of English mice to take on German cancer 
 only shows that 
 
 The best-laid schemes o' men on mice 
 Aft gang agley. 
 
 (Loud laughter and cheers.) 
 
 But the scientific free-traders were determined to overcome 
 what they call these " initial difficulties." They worked at the 
 English mice until they had forced them to take on German cancer, 
 just as King Charles forced the ship-tax on the people of England. 
 King Charles lost his head and crown. English scientists win 
 Royal smiles and honour and emoluments. But in the one case 
 it was men who suffered ; in the other it was only mice. (Hear, 
 hear.) 
 
 And now for the discoveries. First ; These eminent scientists 
 found out that, just as in human beings, cancer occurs spontane- 
 ously more among aged mice than it does in young ones. That is 
 interesting, but I don't know that the knowledge is of any particu- 
 lar value. Secondly : They found that when they pumped cancer 
 into the bodies of mice the young ones took it on rather better than 
 their older friends. What the value of that information Is I cannot 
 say ; it takes an expert to find that out. Thirdly : *' The power of 
 continuous cell multiplication was demonstrated by the fact that 
 a single mouse tumour produced an amount of tissue equal to 
 more than a thousand mice," but as they admit this fact of cell 
 multiplication had been recognised long, long ago, I do not know 
 why on earth they wanted to torture mice to discover it over again. 
 Fourthly : They put sound mice with diseased mice and they found 
 the sound ones did not take cancer ; therefore, cancer was not in- 
 fectious. This was considered so important that H.R.H. repeated 
 the fact in his speech. I thought we had had thousands of human 
 beings living with cancer patients, for ages past, and accordingly 
 knew all about this ; but they don't say whether they were German 
 
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 mice or English mice, because, as already seen, the English mice 
 might refuse to be exploited on behalf of Germans. Fifthly : There 
 came the serum business. They put cancer cells into normal sera, 
 and into immunised sera, and they couldn't come to any conclusion 
 about it. 
 
 And yet with all this persiflage recorded in the most unsatis- 
 factory report that I ever had the misfortune to read. Sir William 
 Church has the temerity to talk about ** real progress." I want to 
 know where the progress is. I have searched carefully, but I have 
 failed to find it, in spite of all the torture perpetrated upon these 
 poor little victims, and in spite of four years of cruel vivisection 
 experiments, and the expenditure of thousands of pounds. Not 
 one single solid fact has been added to scientific knowledge which 
 can aid toward the alleviation or cure of the disease, and the Prince 
 of Wales closed his speech by admitting that cancer " still remains 
 one of the greatest problems of human life." At all events this 
 knocks on the head the loudly-advertised cancer serum of M. 
 Doyen, another vivisectionist, who informed the world with all the 
 confidence bred of ignorance, that he had discovered a *' perfect 
 cure." Is it not time some other method of research was adopted? 
 (Prolonged applause.) 
 
 Suggested Method of Cancer Research. 
 
 The scientists at Marlborough House declared their opinion that 
 cancer is not associated with diet, climate, or mode of life. In 
 answer to this reckless statement from the bacteriological armchair 
 one may quote the classical work of Mr. Alfred Haviland, 
 M.R.C.S., who has proved in his " Geographical Distribution of 
 Disease in Great Britain," by means of the statistics of the Regis- 
 trar-General, that cancer flourishes in low-lying and water-logged 
 districts, and that it can hardly gain a footing in land at high 
 levels, on dry and gravelly, well-drained soils, where God's pure 
 air reigns supreme. A hard concrete fact of this description is 
 better than all the theoretical verbiage associated with the cruelties 
 of poisoned mice. Among savage races farthest removed from 
 civilisation, cancer is practically unknown, whereas in China and 
 some of the thickly-populated parts of the United States of America 
 it is of frequent occurrence. And in answer to Sir Wm. Church 
 
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 and his Imperial Cancer Research Fund, I can only say, as one 
 who has largely studied the question of cancer for some years from 
 the common-sense standpoint of human observation, that the 
 denser the population, the more low-lying the district, the more 
 artificial the environment, and the weaker the vital resisting 
 powers of the individual constitution, the more cancer appears to 
 flourish ; and I believe that by means of right living, healthy condi- 
 tions, proper drainage, purer air, and suppression of over-crowding 
 - — in fact, every means whereby the vital resisting powers of the 
 system can be increased — lies the germ for future researches in the 
 prevention, and perhaps cure, of this terrible disease. (Cheers.) 
 
 I feel that we thorough-going Anti-Vivisectionists, who decline 
 to be parties to an absurd Parliamentary Bill (which off"ers to grant 
 six inoculations to each licensee with the puerile proviso that if 
 the speechless animal begins to suffer it is to be destroyed), are 
 doing a great work far beyond that of merely opposing vivisection, 
 for we are setting our faces against a wholly wrong system of 
 medical treatment and are pointing to sounder, safer, and more 
 scientific methods of research. A success in the laboratory is 
 repeatedly a failure in practical life. 
 
 The System of Bacteriology. 
 
 We are being frightened to death by microbes. It is germs, 
 germs, germs everywhere. I see one doctor lately says we must 
 give up shaking hands because there are 80,000 germs in every 
 palm. (Laughter.) Kissing has been tabooed long ago on simi- 
 lar grounds, although I have not heard this pleasant osculatory 
 practice has in any way diminished. (Continued laughter.) There 
 are germs above us, around us, within us, in everything we eat and 
 almost everything we drink. It is a wonder that any of us are 
 alive at all. One scientist has lately warned us most solemnly 
 that fleas are very dangerous because they might give us the 
 plague. Well, I always did try to avoid fleas, and I suppose I 
 ought to be very thankful that I have ever tried to keep them at a 
 respectful distance. (Loud laughter.) 
 
 Every question to-day is to be settled by a microbe. 
 
 Now I do not say one word against the science of bacteriology. 
 It has its place, and that place is a vrluable one, though I am 
 
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 bound to confess its value has been sadly overrated ; but when it 
 makes claims it cannot prove, and vaunts promises and prophecies 
 it never fulfils, I begin to lose faith in it as a medical guide. Scien- 
 tists lay down as an axiom of which they challenge contradiction, 
 that practically all the acute specific diseases owe their origin to a 
 specific microbe, and yet an undoubted specific microbe has never 
 yet been discovered as the unerring cause of a single one of them. 
 The whole of the system of serum-therapy and anti-toxin, with its 
 cruelty to animals practised for the production of these filthy pre- 
 parations, is based upon a theory which has never been proved, 
 either by statistics or demonstration. (Cheers.) 
 
 Now I am not going to give you statistics to-day, for I quite 
 agree there is nothing so fallacious as statistics except it be facts, 
 but I want to get behind this bacteriological craze and by one solid 
 argument to measure its value for the whole host of diseases it 
 presumes to cater for. I will take the bacteriologist on his own 
 ground and use his own argument. We will suppose for argu- 
 ment's sake that the various diseases owe their origin to a specific 
 germ. Now, every bacteriologist asserts that healthy blood is the 
 most powerful germicide we possess. No germ can live in healthy 
 blood. Inside or outside the body healthy blood is equally fatal 
 to the germs. Then, I say, by all means let us do everything we 
 can to get healthy blood. When a child's blood is alreadv inflamed 
 by the absorption of the morbid products of diphtheria, are you 
 going to improve its vital resisting powers by polluting the life- 
 stream still further with the poisoned blood serum of a horse? A 
 mother points with pride to a child who got well from diphtheria 
 after an injection of anti-toxin ; just as the savage praises his 
 wooden fetish when his tribe wins in the battle. If the baby die or 
 the battle is lost, the anti-toxin in the one case and the fetish in 
 the other was not resorted to soon enough— so says the medicine 
 man. And between the cure and the failure there are many degrees 
 of possible excuses, but whatever the degree, ''quackery," as 
 Cobbett says, "has always one shuffle left." (Applause.) 
 
 They tell us plague is caused by rats, and when rats have dis- 
 appeared the plague has disappeared too. That was no doubt the 
 case when the conditions under which rats usually exist were no 
 longer present. Dr. Creighton, in his recent investigations into 
 the plague in India, has shown that the insanitary conditions 
 
 which breed the rats are the conditions which breed the plague, 
 and yet an army of so-caUed scientists are still poisoning the people 
 with a filthy decoction of plague instead of spending their time and 
 brains and money in sweeping away the foul conditions which exist 
 throughout the plague area. (Hear, hear.) 
 
 What did Koch himself say before the British Congress on 
 Tuberculosis : " It is the overcrowded dwellings of the poor that 
 we have to regard as the real breeding-places of tuberculosis ; it is 
 out of them that the disease always crops up anew, and it is to the 
 abolition of these conditions that we must first and foremost 
 direct our attention if we wish to attack the evil at its root, and to 
 wage war against it with effective weapons." (Cheers.) 
 
 I might deal with typhoid fever, typhus, cholera, malaria, and 
 many other diseases, all of which I should argue about from the 
 same standpoint did time permit, but I cannot close this part of 
 my subject without quoting a pregnant sentence from a leading 
 article in the Times, when Sir Ernest Cassel gave his splendid gift 
 for a sanatorium to the King. The Times said : " W^hen medical 
 science has said its last word, the best hope for the cure of disease 
 lies simply in the strengthening by rational modes of living the 
 resisting power of the human organism." Those are words I 
 would have written in letters of gold. (Loud applause.) 
 
 Serum =Therapy Run Mad. 
 
 What a contrast to such sound, philosophic and truly scientific 
 reasoning are the awful vagaries of Professor Metchnikoff, who 
 has had the audacity to put a syphilitic serum upon the market ob- 
 tained by artificially diseasing monkeys, and proposes to inoculate 
 all the soldiers and sailors and fallen women in France with it, and 
 to poison the blood of all lads when they commence school life. 
 His serum to arrest the advance of old age is a contrast in comi- 
 cality about which he appears to be really serious. But, perhaps, 
 the strangest attempt to advertise this mad serum-therapy craze 
 consists in the manufacture of a serum to cure fatigue. It is ob- 
 tained by fatiguing a poor dog on a sort of treadmill until it drops 
 down wearied and nearly dead, and then expressing juice from its 
 muscles, which is forthwith injected into the veins of a horse, 
 whose blood is finally drawn off to be afterwards pumped into 
 
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 human beings under the name of anti-toxin, so as to invig^orate 
 them when they are tired out ! Sancho Panza, when he threw 
 himself wearied upon the ground, cried, ** God bless the man who 
 first invented sleep," and I wonder which remedy appeals the more 
 to common sense, that of simple-minded Sancho Panza or the cruel, 
 absurd, filthy, and complicated process of the modern bacterio- 
 logist. (Laughter and cheers.) 
 
 But I will take up your time no longer. I have sought to 
 expose a great fallacy and to point to a high ideal. I know the 
 battle we have to fight is a hard one, with prestige, tradition, 
 emolument, and Royal favour all against us, but the cause is 
 sacred. If results are sometimes disappointing, and our hearts 
 grow sad at the delay, it must be ours to remember that all re- 
 formers have passed through similar experiences, but victory has 
 crowned their efforts at the last. As Whittier says : - 
 
 With something of the seer 
 Must the moral pioneer 
 
 From the future borrow, 
 Fill his fields with sheaves of grain, 
 And on midnight's sky of rain 
 
 Paint the golden morrow. 
 
 We ask you to help us. We ask you to join our whole-hearted 
 Society, founded by our revered Miss Frances Power Cobbe in her 
 declining years, when another Society she had founded twenty 
 years before had departed from the policy she had fought for in the 
 strenuous days of the past. It is her motto which should actuate 
 us all, namely, that she had formed a determination long years 
 before that she would never lay her head upon her pillow at night 
 without having done something, however small, toward the eman- 
 cipation of those helpless creatures which lay so near her own 
 heart. It is her voice which speaks to us still, and it 
 is her great example which speeds us on. We shall not win 
 at once, but we shall win. Of that I am confident, for the God of 
 Victory is ours. And though the way be long and the battle 
 severe, we must ever remember : — 
 
 Slowly moves the rock of ages, 
 
 Slowly grows the forest king. 
 Slowly to perfection cometh 
 
 Every great and glorious thing. 
 
 (Loud and prolonged applause.) 
 
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 A Problem 
 
 Impromptu lines upon a remark ■with refer- 
 u) to vivisection, "but they have no souls," 
 
 lue Carlo, dear four-footed friend, 
 
 ud look at mc that I may trace 
 (ce more that glance of loving light, 
 ivhich lends such beauty to thy face, 
 [t whence it comes and what it means, 
 'an take small place in Nature's roll; 
 |\' gaze is but atonic play, 
 
 or Carlo, dear, thou hast no soul(?) 
 
 " me thy paw; 'tis trustier far 
 ^lian many a hand of human mould; 
 
 I greet me with thy honest tongue 
 ^Miich never a human lie has told, 
 yet thy steadfastness and truth 
 
 'were idle folly to extol; 
 
 jy're only matter's fleeting form 
 
 ^or Carlo, dear, thou hast no soul(?) 
 
 ere let my vivisecting knife 
 5I0W make thee, dumb, and maimed, and blind ; 
 y torture weighs not in the scale, 
 Vlatter must be the store of mind. 
 ! God, that look ; that piteous cry, 
 IVhat is this thought beyond control? 
 n science be a cruel lie, 
 ind faithful Carlo have asotil? 
 
 (X. H, E. in London Zoophilist) 
 
 Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the most 
 tinguishing vices of the lowest and basest of 
 I people. Whenever it is found, it is a cer- 
 raark of ignorance and meanness — an 
 rinsic mark which all the external advantages 
 ivealth, splendor and nobility cannot obliterate 
 ill consist neither with true learning nor 
 civility, and religion disclaims and detests 
 an insult upon the majesty and goodness 
 iiod, who, having made the instincts of 
 le beasts minister to the improvement of 
 mind, as well as to the convenience of the 
 \ , hath furnished us with a motive to mercy 
 i compassion tow^ard them very strong and 
 •verful, but too refined to have any influence 
 the illiterate or irreligious. 
 
 ^(By the Saintly Divine, ''Jones of Nayland'*) 
 
 "As nothing is too crr.cl, so nothing is too 
 loathsome for tlie vivisectors. ^ W. Gaucher 
 revels in a new way of giving annnals Brlght's 
 Disease. It consists in injecting into guinea 
 pigs certain products of animal organs, so that 
 the poor creatures die of diseased kidneys. 
 Dr. Klein, Mr. Lingartl and others are amusing 
 themselves by feeding fowls upon the putrid 
 lungs of men and animals to induce tuberculosis 
 and inoculating guinea-pigs, which persist in dis- 
 apointing these fragrant persons by premature 
 death from blood poisoning. And the result 
 of all the diabolical cruelties practised is the 
 power of PUODUCiXG diseases but not a step 
 towards their cuke. The effect of their c:rnc- 
 some processes are found to be quite different 
 on different animals, and are, therefore, scarce- 
 y ever a guide to their eff*ects on human beings. 
 Let no one, however, be discouraged; they will 
 presently want human beings to practice on." 
 
 (Halifax ''Critic'') 
 
 The Crime of the World, 
 Vivisection 
 
 And beyond all this, in abyssmal deeps 
 The Spirit of Cruelty sows and reaps. 
 In the chambers of Torture that wear to day 
 The glow of the cruel inquisitor's sway ; 
 'Tis impious zeal that in Murder deals, 
 Not Humanity's heart-throb that grandly feels. 
 O, shrink from the terrible hand, blood-dyed, 
 That all claim of the merciful soul denied; 
 The foulest and blackest, most fearful crime, 
 Injustice the rankest! most barbarous sight! 
 Pretense of Knowledge assailing the Right ! 
 Vivisection, the depths of all cruelty thine. 
 Thy crimes are the false lights that luridly shine. 
 
 "Now that Jews, Heretics and Witches can 
 no longer be tormented, punched with red-hot 
 irons and burnt, the human race satisfies its 
 thirst for cruelty on faithful, sensitive animals. 
 So long as there is something to be burnt, 
 flogged, cut in pieces, it little matters what. 
 
 (^Thier und Menschcn Freund, Germany) 
 
 'The great duty of life is not to give 
 
 »» 
 
 "The grand name of Science is now pros- 
 tituted to the uses of those hellish crimes and 
 vile monstrous cruelties, too loathsome often- 
 times to be even written about by the flcndisl! 
 
 tormentors themselves." 
 
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