ON THE RIGHTS OF BEASTS. 133 



for the furtherance and improvement of 

 fcience. Granted. Yet it is an advantage 

 not honed! y obtained, but by fraud and cruel- 

 ty. There are alfo other fhort cuts to interefl 

 in the world, about the honefty or juftice of 

 which, it becomes us to be filent. It has been 

 faid, that the world could not have either gold, 

 fugar, or coals, but at the expence of human 

 blood, and human liberty. The world, in that 

 cafe, ought not to have either gold, fugar, or 

 coals. The principle admits of no qualifica- 

 tion. But the affertion was fallacious and 

 unfounded; thofe comforts are all attainable 

 by honeft means, by voluntary and fairly re- 

 munerated induftry. By the fame rule, I 

 firmly believe the wit of man to be fully com- 

 petent to the attainment of all the neceflary or 

 poflible anatomical knowledge, from the exa- 

 mination of dead fubjecls, although perhaps 

 it may not be thence fo quickly attainable; 

 and I could as eafily fuppofe human fagacity 

 unable to calculate the motions, and meafure 

 the diftances of the heavenly bodies, without the 

 aid of a ladder, reaching up to the fkies; as that 

 it could be incompetent to make all the necef- 

 fary difcoveries, touching the animal ceconomy, 

 without having recourfe to the unnatural, 

 cruel, and infamous means of differing living 

 bodies. 



It will be urged, that the admiffion of brutes 



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