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of which would seem less likely to advance utilitarian ends? 

 And yet I must remind you that our whole electrical de- 

 velopment of to-day is the direct outgrowth of Galvani's 

 observation in 1786. 



Third, we object to the imputations this bill puts upon 

 us. We object to having our laboratories subject to regis- 

 tration, like a liquor saloon or a pawnbroker's shop. We 

 object to the insinuation which the passage of either of 

 these bills would place upon our biological faculty. We 

 object to any insinuation that we are not fully competent 

 to discriminate between right and wrong, or that being thus 

 able, we are likely, or even liable, to choose the wrong. 



Fourth and lastly, we object to the espionage and sur- 

 veillance to which these bills would subject us. We would 

 be liable at any moment to invasion by agents of societies, 

 the responsibilities of which are certainly no greater than 

 those of our own trustees. 



