G. STANLEY HALL 



PRESIDENT OF CLARK UNIVERSITY 



PRESIDENT G. STANLEY HALL of Clark University said in 

 substance, that he was not a vivisector or even a phy- 

 sician, but during the eight years as professor at the Johns 

 Hopkins University and since 1889 at Clark, he had 

 followed nearly every experiment involving vivisection 

 in those two universities, his own department physiolog- 

 ical psychology being closely related. He therefore 

 felt himself in some sense both impartial, and competent 

 to form an opinion. Physiology was based on the study 

 of living, as anatomy was upon dead, organs and tissues. 

 Hence to deprive physiology of the right of vivisection 

 would be to stultify its progress, never so rapid as now, 

 and never so helpful in the amelioration of human suffer- 

 ing and the cure of disease. 



He traced the analogy between the difficulties which 

 anatomy had to overcome in procuring bodies for dissec- 

 tion, and declared that the same spirit which of old perse- 

 cuted the great dissectors and condemned them as criminals, 

 in our day animated the false humanitarianism of the anti- 

 vivisectors. The struggle with the anatomy acts was a 

 long one, but the victory was now so complete that every 

 intelligent person sanctions, and the laws of every en- 

 lightened land protect and defend, the right to use un- 

 claimed human bodies in dissecting-rooms, and to use them 

 freely. The speaker had no shadow of doubt or fear but 

 that the outcome of the present struggle of existence for 

 physiology would be no less complete, and hoped its 

 friends would exercise patience and, if it was necessary, 



