The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-12
MONKEY BRIGHTER
THAN SOME HUMANS
Theory of Psychic Relationship
Not Displeasing to Miss
Lind-Af-Hageby.
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Washington, December 11.--While 4
blushed and looked uncomfortable in
handsome scnlskin coats, Miss Lind -af-
HaSeby, in the closing session of the
international Administration and AMI
NAL Congress. declared that women
who wear sealskin coats ought to DO
ashamed OF themselves. The women
who wear sealskin coats are rs cruel
as the men who get the seals and
bleed them alive for womon--ignorant
and shamefully ignorant womcn--to
wear on their Backs she said.
Miss Lind-af- Hagcby admitted that
she did not find the theory OF Il psy-
chic relationship with monkeys an un-
happy doctrine. and that she had u
monkey once who was far brighter
and far more charming than many hui
man beings / know"
Il assure YOU that were YOU to study
monkeys closely as have. studied
lmonkcys-their little livcs-their little
hearts" She continued, you would not
only find it less difficult In accepting
the evolution Idea; you would positive
ly find certain parental instincts and
relationships that YOU might be de-
lighted to acknowledges"
The congress before II adjourned
adopted Il resolution which called upon
tho United States government to APP
point COMMITTEE OF investigation, 10
consist of members OF both houses, to
investigate the textbooks used in pub
lie schools, (which contain the eQuiva-
lent of instruction OF cruelty and TO
pass legislation To secure and enforce
n closed season. covering Il period of
five years. which will check the whole
sale slaughter of birds, which threat
ems the total extinction OF some species
The congress agreed TO meet In
Brussels. Belgium, next year, and the
| dot tlO Of tt..t -
ranged when the executive committee
meets next spring.
! Pathetic Feature.
| y pathetic feature of tho concluding
session was an appealing address made
| 10y the Hon. Henry Il. Lanius, the blind
State Asscmblyman. OF Pennsylvania.
! on The Danger OF Experiments on HUI
man Beings"
The Assemblymnn had the subject
very close at heart. and in particular
I said
/ "viviaection IS relic OF barbaric
days, and must be stamped out. 1t is
cruel and bears no results.
There Is no greater physical annoy
ance than tuberculosis eye, and no one
| is better able TO judge OF this than l.
! Any man, scientist or not. who has
| used test on unsuspecting victim
and can face this victim in after years
I has not advanced one step from his
torbears-the barbarians Of ancient
times
Mr.. Lanius cited the case OF twelve
! year old child who lost his sight
through experiments with vaccine by
physicians in a Philadelphia hospital
! There is no moro atroc!ous crime on
/ record he exclaimed, than that OF the
family physician who takes advantage
Of defcnsclcss patients and defcnselcss
women TO practice Viviscction on them.
IL say let women have their rights.
do not hold with many that to let wo-
men get the Vote all human wrongs
will be righted. But from personal OBJ
scrvation of Pennsylvania institutions.
1 J have noticed that the most successful
ones are those which have the co-opc-
ration OF women.
After ALL" he continued .'thc
greatest objection TO human vivisection
is that it is practiccd on the victims
without their knowledge. If these
scientists are so devoted to the pro
gress OF science. why do they not prac-
tice on themselves. and then they
could tell all the symptoms every hour
OF the day and night much better than
the victims could tell them"
savage Is Ancestor.
The savage is the ancestor of all
higher men," said Professor j. How
ard Moore, OF the Crane Ethical School,
There is not a man living who can
trace his pedigree back indefinitely
into the past without coming upon a
naked lowbrowcd savage ~ his an
ce. ,ur. y man who will treat u dog
or Il guneapg as If it were an mani
mate thing has the psychological
equipment to hold human beings as
slaves in n little diInmer age than the
present. / meet men every day who
would have eaten their grandfathers
and grandmothcrs In tho jungle with {,
relish, If they had happened to hit ex-
istcncc at n convenient stage in human
Development.
The cause OF the wrongs OF to-day
is that man has anthropoccntricism
the doctrine of thinking he is the CEN
trail fact in the universe. We act ms
IL our species has had different origin
from tn, rest of the Inhabitants of the
earth and had been endowed with q
SPECIAL des Tiny and special powers and
special prerogatives."