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papers and magazines, enough to fill volumes, did 

 he write during the last twenty years of his life, 

 besides private letters innumerable, upon this burn- 

 ing subject, never deviating from his uncompro- 

 mising opposition to the vivisectionists of every 

 shade and colour. 



As a matter of course, in this as in almost every 

 other cause which he espoused, he met with much 

 violent opposition ; but this he heeded not, except 

 in so far that the louder the cry against him and 

 the crusade on which he had entered, the faster he 

 drew the arrows out of his quiver. The bare fact 

 of his being a clergyman seemed to make some of 

 his enemies the more bitter against him. They 

 called him an outsider, who therefore could know 

 nothing about the matter that he was an "igno- 

 ramus" and a sentimentalist. He was, however, 

 always ready with his reply, and they could not 

 thus shut the mouth of him who lifted up his voice 

 against them. " As well," said he, in a letter written 

 in 1881, "tell you that you can know nothing of a 

 bull-fight because you have never been in the bull- 

 ring hand-in-glove with the matadors and picadors, 

 or ever even been in Spain or crossed the Bay of 

 Biscay. As well tell you that you can know nothing 

 of the cruelty of cock-fighting because you have 

 never handled a 'main' of cocks in the pit, or 

 clipped their combs, or fitted on their spurs for a 

 ' round.' Any one who has eyes can see through 

 it all, and only laughs at it. ... Let them ' talk to 

 the marines.' It is only wasting their breath ! " 



