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so, but for the fact that our title happens to be so 

 much the better one ; in fact, I think, the best that 

 could be devised, at least as to the word ' Inter- 

 national,' for I should much prefer the plain Eng- 

 lish words, ' experimenters on living animals/ to the 

 long Latin words, which so many have not under- 

 stood. Let something be done, and that soon, for 

 vis unita fortior, and bis dat qui cito dat. It will be 

 to the great economy of time, trouble, and expense, 

 and a bolder front will be presented to the enemy, 

 with whom there must, in God's name, be no truce 

 till the abomination is trodden under foot and 

 stamped out." 



It was a gratification to Mr. Morris when he 

 learned that the Victoria Street Society and the In- 

 ternational Society became amalgamated, as they 

 finally were on April 6, 1883. For several years, 

 and that almost daily, he carried on what he termed 

 a " Plan of Campaign " against this, the greatest 

 cruelty of the age. Thousands of copies of various 

 publications, among which was one of his own 

 entitled "A Defence of our Dumb Companions 

 against the cowardly Cruelty of the Experimenters 

 on Living Animals," were circulated by post far and 

 wide all over the country, in which the practices of 

 the vivisectionists were trenchantly dealt with. 



As already mentioned, he gave a very plain 

 and decided expression of his views generally on 

 this question in a sermon he preached in York 

 Minster in 1886. Well knowing the opinions of 

 Mr. Ruskin with regard to the practice of vivisec- 



