Evening journal., 1900-03-14


one-with every breath they draw. Can
this be called eXaggeration If we re-
member that such men as these spend
their whole lives in subjecting gentle,
unoffending creatures to the tortures
OF the damned? If only men and wo-
MEN could realize but for one moment
these tortures. ! am convinced that
the practice of vivisection would be
Iswept away in a great burst of national
fury before another year had passed.
But, alasl nothing can reveal that hell
on earth to the multitudes of men and
women, absorbed, perforce, In their
business and in their own many griefs.
But let II be remembered that the ami
mails in their anguish have no redress,
no possibility of appeal, Of combina-
tion, no consolidation of faith, hope or
religion, none of the exaltations of vol
mtary sacrifice. There is nothing for
them but the dark, unimaginable hor-
ror of dumb, hopeless, CHASTITY suffer-
ing.
Dr. Hogan tells MS that after going
through three campaigns where he saw
many a sad sight, he saw none sadder
than when the dogs were brought up
from the cellars to be vivisected. the
poor creatures appearing terrified, as II
they knew that some cruel fate await
ed them. They would try to appeal for
mercy by begging or licking the hands
of their pitiless torturers, but always in
vain. Once it Is recorded that stu
dents were touched by the appeals OF a
poor little fox terrier and tried to per-
suade the professor to spare II, but the
learned gentleman said that he would
teach them to give way to no such
maudlin sensibility. and he vivisected
the creature cruelty then and there,
and also kept him to serve for further
experiment on the following day.
People often talk judicially and
moderately" about vivisection, as II il
were a question merely of human well
fare and of medical science. Let me
entreat those who take that view to
try to realize the fate of a creature
seized and bound by strong, ruthless
hands, and tortured slowly. cleverly
delicately, exquisitely, sometimes with
the muscles of the larnyx cut, so that
the operator shall not be disturbed by
its groans and cries: sometimes under
the spell OF the "hellish drug curare
ESQ called by Tennyson) which holds
every muscle still and stif-though the
victim lies unbound in his trough-sc
that movement or utterance Is impos.
sible, while at the same time the whole
| elaborate network Of sensory nerves 1.
| left free-nay, according to some ex
perts, with heightened sensitiveness-
to perform their terrible work of con
yeying sensation through the delicate
branching fibers to all parts OF tn,
agonized body; a network that seem.
TO form a horrible garment of anguish
/ in which the creature lies still ant
stark in an unimaginable martyrdom.
/ firmly believe that some day IL will
be recognized by all that vivisection Il
in fact the arch-enemy of science
whose teaching has ever been that ma
ture Is one in essence and that her laws
lare harmonious and not contradictory
but. II her laws are not contradictory
how can Il possibly be that what II
morally wrong should be scientiicall,
4 right, that what is cruel and unWs
should lead us to peace and health
We have never yet found this to b
the rule in any other case. Why shoull
there be an exception in this? Ar
there special natural laws in favor O
the psychologist that he alone should b
held justified in pursuing legitimat
ends by illegitimate means
Suppose art were also to Sc
up a claim to follow her sublime vOca
tion by torture: suppose religion re
asserted her privilege OF enforcing he
teaching by fire and sword. II one pre-
fession or calling may do evil that goo
may come. why may not all follow thi
lcreed2 Science herself cries out agafns
I the false doctrine, the blasphemy Of tn
/, 'vivisector.
( II he be right-if we must act a
fends in order to gain angelic ends
then life is intolerable and prepostei
Gus: moral beauty is a sham and good
ness a foolish dream.-Mrs. Mon
Card, in the Herald Of the Golde
Age.