210 FRANCIS ORPEN MORRIS 



line, one anti-vivisectionist organ made it appear as 

 if he was not heart and soul against the practice. 

 It was thus that he hastened to set the matter right 

 in the eyes of those who might else have been 

 misled by it. 



" You yourself/' he wrote, " quote my own words 

 as petitioning for the total abolition of the practice, 

 and yet after this you would make out that this is 

 not my one and main object, which it has been all 

 along, as I believe is fully known, and which I have 

 been doing all in my power to obtain, very many 

 more times, practically, than on every day in the 

 year, and for several years, through the post. And 

 what is your ground for your perversion of this 

 fact ? Simply this : that if the petition is refused 

 no concession towards it should be asked or accepted 

 even as a stepping-stone to it. 



" By parity of reasoning, if a general demands the 

 surrender of a citadel, and it is refused, he must 

 not ask nor accept the surrender of the walls and 

 outworks as stepping-stones to it. If he does, he 

 is to be told that he does not want to take the 

 citadel. 



" You knew that this was my view, for I expressed 

 it to you in so many words several months since, 

 and yet, after all, you have represented me as if not 

 caring for the total abolition of the practice ! 



" . . . Only let the public see for themselves the 

 practices in these deeds of cruelty, and the atrocity 

 will be swept away at once. 



" Depend upon it that our honest artisans and 



