CONCLUSIONS 



Their sympathies go out to those animals which 

 are petted and caressed; but they are not dis- 

 posed to be interested for the animals which 

 are truly abused- -the live stock exposed to the 

 butcher and the market, with their thirst and 

 their hunger and their wounds. Unfortunately 

 for the steers, calves, sheep, and hogs, they are 

 not fondled by the victims of zoophilic psy- 

 chosis. Besides these mentally diseased types 

 and the mentally oblique, there is a large class 

 of good-natured persons who are influenced by 

 the earnestness of the others and whose op- 

 position to animal experimentation is made 

 possible because of their ignorance of its mean- 

 ing. 



"Antivivisectionists" interest themselves not 

 so much in experiments upon fishes, insects, 

 pigeons, rats, mice and snakes, nor in cruelties 

 to men, cattle, chickens and sheep. Their in- 

 terests are bent towards those useless animals 

 which can be made the objects of fondling and 

 which compared with the other animals play a 

 minor role in the great field of scientific ex- 

 perimentations. The neurotic qualities of 

 their activities is displayed in this bias of in- 

 terest. 



In the United States are 100,000 orphans 



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