THE CONQUEST OF DISEASE 



ing up in the heart of a single one of the most 

 lowly urchins of the street. 



Concerning animal cruelty, the real cruelty 

 to animals is not in the hands of those who are 

 making animal studies to help their fellow men. 

 All of these experiments upon vertebrate ani- 

 mals of every character with or without anes- 

 thesia everywhere in the world, are inconsid- 

 erable are infinitesimal, compared with the 

 atrocious cruelties of the huntsmen and of the 

 drivers and trainers of animals. Animals are 

 ruthlessly slain and dragged away from their 

 young, that we may clothe our bodies in skins 

 of wild beasts like pre-historic savages. They 

 add their plumage to the abounding glory of 

 women's hats ; they are stripped of their skins 

 to cover our feet and hands. We eat their 

 bloody flesh. The huntsman wounds them and 

 sends them maimed and bleeding to their lairs. 

 Where one animal is mercifully destroyed for 

 the sake of science, ten thousand are brutally 

 slaughtered for man's vanity and sport. Male 

 animals for food and draught, not preserved 

 for breeding purposes, are subjected to a muti- 

 lating operation in numbers exceeding our 

 power to grasp. These operations are prac- 

 ticed by the horny handed farmer, and we 



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