CONCLUSIONS 



It will continue to lead him on and on to better 

 things. It is ineradicably implanted in the 

 human soul. Men have ever been willing to 

 suffer and die for the sake of getting at the 

 truth. When the dissection of human bodies 

 was illegal, the hunger for* knowledge could 

 not be stopped. When animals are regarded 

 as more precious than men, if animal experi- 

 mentation should be prohibited, experiments 

 would be made on men. Trying to combat dis- 

 eases, the nature of which we do not under- 

 stand, amounts to that. Shall we study disease 

 upon animals, or upon men, women and chil- 

 dren? When, as a result of accident or disease, 

 one suffers destruction of parts or of organs, 

 who is there who would prefer, to remedy the 

 defect, to have an operation which had nev- 

 er been attempted before, when its practi- 

 cability might have been determined upon 

 a lower animal? We ourselves may be 

 whole and sound of limb, but our hospitals 

 are full of people to whom this is a pertinent 

 question. 



Ignorance has ever caused more pain than 

 has the searching for useful knowledge. Let 

 us by all means be kind to animals, chiefly be- 

 cause it teaches us to be kind to one another; 



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