[88i.J VIVISECTION. 387 



Allow me to demur to your calling your conjoint article a 

 ' symposium " strictly a " drinking party." This seems to me 

 rery bad taste, and I do hope every one of you will avoid any 

 lemblance of a joke on the subject I know that words, like 

 i joke, on this subject have quite disgusted some persons not 

 it all inimical to physiology. One person lamented to me 

 hat Mr. Simon, in his truly admirable Address at the Medi- 

 :al Congress (by far -the best thing which I have read), spoke 

 >f the fantastic sensuality* (or some such term) of the many 

 nistaken, but honest men and women who are half mad on 

 he subject. . . . 



[To Dr. Lauder Brunton my father wrote in February 

 882: 



" Have you read Mr. [Edmund] Gurney's articles in the 

 Fortnightly ' f and * Cornhill ? ' J They seem "to me very 

 lever, though obscurely written, and I agree with almost 

 verything he says, except with some passages which appear 

 o imply that no experiments should be tried unless some im- 

 nediate good can be predicted, and this is a gigantic mistake 

 ;ontradicted by the whole history of science."] 



* ' Transactions of the International Medical Congress,' 1881, vol. iv. 

 '. 413. The expression "lackadaisical" (not fantastic), and "feeble sen- 

 uality," are used with regard to the feelings of the anti-vivisectionists. 



f " A chapter in the Ethics of Pain," ' Fortnightly Review,' 1881, vol. 

 xx. p. 778. 



\ " An Epilogue on Vivisection," 'Cornhill Magazine,' 1882, vol. xlv, 



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