REVEREND J. T. MAGRATH 



CAMBRIDGE 



(Abstract of statement made by J. T. Magrath at the "vivisection" hear- 

 ing before the committee of the legislature, Friday, March 19, 1901.) 



HE desires to address himself to two or three of the 

 general features of this discussion and then to speak in 

 opposition to one of the most important sections of the 

 proposed bill. 



It had been said at the hearing last year (1900) by one 

 of the remonstrants that " it was not a case of humanity, 

 because the representatives of each side in the controversy 

 were equally inspired by humane motives." He was pre- 

 pared to go a step further this year. 



After listening to every word which had been said at 

 the hearings this year, in view of the explanation of 

 methods in use in the laboratories so fully and candidly 

 made by the able men in charge of them, and in view of 

 the multiplied evidence as to the great value to the human 

 race of the results due to animal experimentation, he had 

 come gradually but surely to the conclusion that the 

 balance of humane disposition in reference to the suffer- 

 ings of the lower animals and that a heavy balance 

 is on the side of those who are presenting the remonstrance 

 to the proposed legislation. 



Again, the question of morality has been raised. 



It is no doubt a wide and deep, and in some respects a 

 complicated, question. But while civilized society - - Chris- 

 tian society-- uses, or permits to be used without protest, 

 the lower animals in many ways involving no little suffer- 



