Thoughts for All Times (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1899. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. THEOLOGY AND VIVISECTION.1 "There is in the whole world no cruelty more cruel than ignorance, and it is this cruel ignorance which we, by experiment, seek to dispel."-- Sir William Gull. "The results of experiments on living animals have been of inestimable service to man, and to the lower animals, and the continuance and extension of such investigations is essential to the progress of knowledge, the relief of suffering, and the saving of life."--The recorded opinion of the General Meeting of the British Medical Association, 1892. "The law of sacrifice is the law of life, which no one can escape; and, provided it is conducted with reverence, of necessity, and under supervision, I regard experimental research not as a mere privilege, but as a moral duty."--Sir Andrew Clark. "Experiments on living animals are as necessary to the further progress of medical science and the healing art, as are experiments in test-tubes to the advancement of chemistry, theoretical and applied."--Sir James Crichton Browne. GOD alone is the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end of all things (Apoc. i. 8). In creating He neither did nor could propose to Himself any supreme end other than His 1 The Dublin Review, in its notice of the preceding edition of the present work, pronounces judgment on this chapter in the following words: "The chapter on vivisection is so eminently sensible and convincing that it will probably serve to reassure completely all except those hopelessly bigoted and fanatical extremists who put the sufferings of a few animals above the common good of the human race. For such, no argument is possible; but there are many others who love animals, who shrink naturally and rightly from the idea of inflicting pain upon them, and will therefore be ...