SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE. 



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the need for vivisection will in time 

 wholly pass away, the truths which 

 it is adapted to teach having in the 

 main heen acquired. There will 

 then remain as the result of tempo- 

 rary suffering a body of knowledge 

 available for the prevention of suffer- 

 ing, not only in the human race, but 

 among the lower animals as well. 

 What may be called the metaphysics 

 of the subject is difficult to deal 

 with, and we can not follow our 

 Toronto contemporary on that 

 ground. In a practical matter like 

 this we feel that it is safer and better 



to trust the instincts of humane 

 men; and among those who have 

 approved of a limited and careful 

 use of vivisection are to be found 

 many whose humanity and sensibil- 

 ity no one would doubt. Science 

 and humanity go hand in hand for 

 the simj)le reason that science is 

 human. In matters of this kind we 

 are therefore disposed to trust the 

 scientific spirit as being essentially a 

 spirit of mercy and benevolence, a 

 minister of good to mankind, and 

 not to mankind only, but to the 

 lower tribes of life as well. 



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