174 The Story of the Bacteria 



malicious, are stirring about and endeavoring 

 to interfere by legislation with the advance- 

 ment of science through that research which 

 involves the use of certain of the lower 

 animals. 



It is one of the duties which good citizenship 

 lays upon the informed and the honest, to 

 see to it that the crusade of short-sighted 

 ignorance and falsehood, which its devotees 

 name anti-vivisection, shall not be permitted 

 to stay the progress and cloud the outlooks 

 of beneficent research. 



