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We believe the word was used without a full sense of its 

 meaning "a form of supreme government by a select 

 few," or " the class who control such a government " 

 and it was certainly meant as a term of reproach. 



In any case it is only necessary to call to your minds 

 the gentlemen who have testified here, or who have been 

 ready to do so - - representatives of the governing or 

 teaching bodies of Tufts College, Boston University, Clark 

 University, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 The Wood's Hole Biological Laboratory, Wellesley Col- 

 lege, Harvard College the teaching and the preaching 

 clergy the medical and surgical professions at large. 



Any one who would consider all these interests to 

 be a small body, or an exclusive class exercising supreme 

 power, must be sadly deficient in the perceptive qualities. 



It has also been stated that this is not an attack against 

 Harvard College, of which I have already said some- 

 thing. Suppose that it is not, we are sure that the college 

 authorities would resent being left out in any such move- 

 ment against education and research in which they are so 

 deeply interested. 



Suppose, moreover, that the intention was as stated, and 

 that some other institution or institutions were the ones 

 igainst which this bill is directed, without specification. 

 [t would, of course, be necessary to produce testimony 

 from so many that are interested in the line of animal 

 experimentation that there could be no doubt what the 

 general feeling is in regard to such restrictive legislation ; 

 and this we believe we have done. 



Still further, because the petitioners declared that it was 

 their intention, by means of this bill, to stop all teaching by 

 demonstration upon living tissue, whether painful or not, 

 the burden was placed upon the remonstrants, that they 

 should show, not only how disastrous such limitations 

 would be in the opinion of experts engaged in biological 



