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of animals, and often quoted them. He held with 

 him that " Christianity must be eternally and fatally 

 disgraced if nations called Christian allow the per- 

 petration of these heart-rending enormities under 

 any pretence whatever." 



To the medical students, who were mainly con- 

 cerned in these experiments, he appealed with all his 

 heart and mind. On them, he urged, these practices 

 had a direct hardening of the better feelings, and 

 tended to demoralise the whole community. He 

 would have had the names of all those medical 

 practitioners who favoured vivisection, as well as 

 those who were against it, published to the world ; 

 and the same with regard to those who had re- 

 ceived licenses and certificates from the Home 

 Secretary for practising experiments on living 

 animals. The fact that the names of those who 

 held such licenses were at first withheld from the 

 public showed, in his opinion, that there was, on 

 the face of it, something to be ashamed of in' these 

 experiments, and that, therefore, they ought to be 

 suppressed. 



It need hardly be stated that my father was in 

 cordial agreement with Miss Frances Power Cobbe 

 in her noble endeavours in the cause of humanity, 

 especially on the vivisection question, and many 

 were the letters that passed between them. In any 

 matter about which he was convinced, and in any 

 cause that he advocated, no half-measures ever 

 satisfied him. Compromises he abhorred, and emi- 

 nently so on this absorbing topic. From the first 



