The annual meeting of the Society for the Abolition of
Vivi- section, held on Thursday, with Lord Shaftesbury in the chair, gave occasion to the .Daily News of yesterday to moralise deeply over the folly of talking of the rights of animals, and to defend the moderate use of vivisection as distinguished from the Con- tinental use of it. We wish the Daily News would tell us what moderate infliction of torture means. If the writer holds that torture of any kind and extent may be inflicted for what the scientific men call a" sufficient purpose" in the way of discovery, then we maintain that the Continental vivisectionists are right, and the English restrictionists wrong. If the writer means that to inflict excessive pain,—torture,--for any purpose is wrong, then not only is the Continental practice put out of court, but the English practice also. Moralisers so authoritative as the writer in the Daily News of yesterday should try to be clear as to their own drift.
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