WHAT IS CEUELTY TO ANIMALS? 



In the physiologic laboratory the condition of 

 dogs after operation is not unlike that of their 

 human brethren. They are comfortable and 

 happy, playing about their kennels, and 

 usually enjoying better care than has ever be- 

 fore been their lot. It has happened that ex- 

 periments have been made upon animals which 

 were painful and which have seemed to give no 

 adequate return in information gained for the 

 pains taken and inflicted. The results of these 

 experiments are matters of record and no one 

 knows but that some day they may be of use* 

 Mistakes of judgment occur among all men, 

 but, of all the cruelties inflicted upon living 

 creatures, the least of these can be laid to the 

 account of the scientific student of animal phe- 

 nomena. It is impossible for us to put our- 

 selves in the animal's place. If we try to do 

 that, it is not the animal we are thinking about, 

 but ourselves, with our sensibilities and our 

 pains and likes and dislikes. Nor can we or do 

 we apply to them the golden rule. 



Concerning man's right to use animals for Man's 

 these purposes, his power and interest con- right over 

 stitute his right. Society has agreed, so far as animals. 

 man is concerned, that when the interest of the 

 few conflicts with that of the many the few 



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