[TO THE EDITOR OF THE ..SPECTITOR.1
who have sympathy with sufferers will be grateful-to* to you for your article in Saturday's Spectator on "The Mora Consequence of Vivisection" If the "Society for the prevention of Cruelty to Animals" has not the courage to carry out the- objects for which it was formed, another society might be engrafted upon it, which would have the vigour of youth, and would not hesitate to use all legal means to stop the growing- iniquity of professors of surgery. Under the plea of scientific purposes, operators should not be allowed to gratify the cruel passions of students by the torture of innocent creatures. For us to permit lower and stronger animals to use the diasecting- knife, to torture higher and weaker animals, is a disgrace to our Civilisation. Of course; a quotation to those experimentalists from one of the , finest poems of a great living poet .would be altogether waste rhetoric. Those who gloat over *nand mimic the cries of the tortured seem to have satanic blood injected into their veins, and would smile with a superior consciousness if they read, " God made all thie_creatures,.nnd gave tbom our love and our fear, To give sign we iincl they re His chilldren, one family here." The torture. of Creatures of their own form and superscriP7 tin is only a step further in the same direction, after nuitilatingP
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