1 8 ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION 



stantly see, as in the temperance cause, and the observance 

 of Sunday, how little they can do ; how they frequently 

 bring on moral deterioration. 



If the friends of anti-vivisection would see that a copy 

 of" Our Dumb Animals " were put in every house, and in 

 the hands of every child in the land, to develop from the 

 earliest years a humane spirit, it would do more good 

 than all the laws upon the subject. 



I find many persons who have great interest in matters 

 which touch human welfare, and care little about the brute 

 creation ; and many persons who would save animals from 

 suffering, who have no desire to prevent or alleviate the 

 sufferings of human beings. 



No body of men will welcome more warmly than scien- 

 tists every necessary precaution which can be thrown 

 around their experiments, as well as all reasonable public- 

 ity to them, and we know that as a body they are quite as 

 humane as any class in the community. 



More and more, the scientific method which has been 

 of such vast benefit to our generation is becoming the 

 method of the age, and no undue restrictions should be 

 thrown in the path of its advance. 



