DISEASES OF THE LOWER ANIMALS 



I am opposed to capital punishment, but 

 were I a condemned criminal, destined to 

 execution, and were I a believer in a loving 

 God who would be influenced in His future 

 disposition of me by my conduct between the 

 hour of my condemnation and death, and were 

 I a believer in His infinite mercy and love for 

 His children, I should feel that the best use to 

 which I could give my life, in order to secure 

 His approval, would be in the interest of my 

 fellow men, just as the dumb horse is now made 

 to give his life for the relief of human suffer- 

 ing ; and I should feel that such a service would 

 meet with more approval in His eyes than the 

 mumbling of flattering expressions in His 

 praise or repeated acknowledgment of my own 

 sinful weaknesses; and, whether I believed 

 these things or not, I should feel that, had I 

 really sinned against mankind, I would ex- 

 piate that sin more fully and end my days more 

 happily by offering my life to human service, 

 in practical or experimental medicine than I 

 could by serving simply to demonstrate noth- 

 ing more important than the effects of the 

 electric current or the hangman's noose. 



There is still another side to this question of 

 animal experimentation which may be touched 



