Evidence Given Before the Royal Commission on Vivisection; Given Before the Royal Commission on Vivisection (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: address any further observations to the Commission If it was a matter of necessity, now or never, I should endeavour to do something. 5575. Then we will ask you to proceed now.? Could you not take me on Monday ? I make that request. 5576. The arrangements of the Commission do ndt enable us to meet on Monday, or on any future day ? 5577. If you have any observations that you wish to address to us now, we wish you to proceed with them ? ?I have given my reasons for not doing so. I could hardly do justice, I think, to the Society and my clients if I went on now. (The Witness withdrew.) Adjourned. The Public will judge whether, or not, this and the immediately foregoing statements and questions of the Chairman were calculated to bring the evidence to a premature conclusion.?G. K. J. chapter{Section 4THIRD DATS EVIDENCE. December 20, 1875. Present: ? The Right Hon. Viscount Cardwell in the Chair. The Eight Hon. W. E. Forster, M.P. Sir J. B. Karblake, M.P. Thomas Henry Huxley, Esq. John Eric Eriohsen, Esq. Richard Holt Button, Esq. K. Bakes, Esq., Secretary. Mr. GEORGE RICHARD JESSE recalled, and further examined. 6418. The Chairman: When your last examination closed, we understood that you wished to say something more Yes. 6419. Will you he so good as to tell us what it is The Society for the Abolition of Vivisection wishes to observe that evidence, such as it has been giving to Her Majesty's Commissioners?of the torture of animals for so-termed scientific objects, the corrupting moral influence generated by these practices, and the errors and fallacies spread abroad by them?it can continue to give, if Her Majesty's Royal Commission is not satisfied that from the mouths of Vivisectors the Society has proved them to be all that it has a...