8 ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION 



leave their absorbing occupations and come up to the 

 State House every year to wage this cultus warfare against 

 well-meaning but uninstructed sentiment. 



The speaker recalled his experience many years ago, 

 while a student of Professor Ludwig at Leipzig, perhaps 

 the most eminent of modern physiologists, who has trained 

 so many of the leading professors in all lands. A bright 

 and sentimental young nobleman had given addresses full 

 of the same stock quotations and stories as have done 

 duty in the discussion before this committee, and had so 

 aroused the sympathies of the ignorant that Professor 

 Ludwig was insulted and pelted with mud and stones on 

 the street. But as things became better understood, a 

 reaction set in, and the professor was made, I think, the 

 president, or at any rate an officer of the Animal Protec- 

 tion Society of Leipzig, where until his death he did 

 more efficient service than any other member in mitigating 

 the sufferings of lost dogs and cats, preventing cruelty 

 to horses, making roads to sandpits, developing the 

 sentiment among ladies against wearing the heads and 

 wings of birds, etc. The sentiment against vivisection 

 has its stronghold among the English aristocracy, and 

 especially among pampered noblewomen, who have the 

 most humanitarian and tender sympathies but have no 

 knowledge or appreciation of science. 



Dr. Hall pleaded for vivisection on behalf of the animals, 

 because by these methods only had the great pests among 

 swine, sheep, cattle, and horses been understood and 

 checked. The motive of the viviscctionists is humani- 

 tarian to the core, and the only question is whether man 

 has a right to sacrifice animals for his own good. This 

 problem was practically settled when man began to eat 

 animal food and destroy noxious creatures. To under- 

 stand the real point at issue, one must in imagination 

 place himself at the critical moment of a grave disease 



