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the God-inspired impulse of fresh sympathy for the 

 humbler creatures of the woods and fields, which is 

 now stirring in thousands of hearts in Europe and 

 America, will not be suffered to die out under the 

 blight of the miserable doctrines which have their 

 natural outcome in vice and vivisection." 1 



Comment, it seems to us, is unnecessary. 



AS TO THE PRESENT BILL 



Coming to the bill itself, and I have confined myself 

 to Bill 856, in accordance with the statement of counsel 

 that the two were combined in this one : 



AN ACT 



To regulate the Practice of Vivisection. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 

 in General Court assembled, and by the autliority of the 

 same, as follows : 



1 SECTION I. No person shall perform on any 



2 animal any experiment calculated to give pain to 



3 such animal, except subject to the restrictions 



4 hereby imposed, namely: 



5 (rt) Such experiment shall be performed only 



6 for the purpose of discovering or demonstrating 



7 unknown or uncertain physiological or patho- 



8 logical phenomena, the knowledge of which will 



9 be useful in saving or prolonging human life, or 

 10 alleviating human suffering. 



We object to this section because, - 



First, it is indefinite in the use of the words "calculated 

 to give pain." These may be interpreted as meaning 



1 Frances Power Cobbe. Quoted in Boston Transcript, January 30, 1901. 



