8o Physiological research averts suffering. 



is inflicted in such experiments, is by men of the 

 highest eminence in physiology, and therefore by the 



most competent persons. 



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Experimental research is an occupation requiring 



an exceptional kind of ability and experience ; and 

 persons who 'have never made experiments, nor 

 studied their relation to human welfare, are largely 

 incompetent to determine when and how they should 

 be made, the real effects of them, or the value of the 

 knowledge they afford. To persons inexperienced in 

 scientific research, many experiments appear useless, 

 which have great practical value, either immediately 

 or at a later period. Our greatest curse is ignorance ; 

 and knowledge, by enabling us to avoid the fatal 

 effects of pestilences, and epidemics, is as necessary 

 as food to mankind. The " Anti-vivisection " move- 

 ment however ir> but one of the phases of the ever- 

 existing conflict between the advancing and retarding 

 sections of mankind. 



Greater sympathy with suffering accompanies 

 greater civilization. The increased humanity of the 

 present age over that of previous ones, is largely due 

 to the discovery and extension of new scientific know- 

 ledge. Science, by showing more clearly to man his 

 true position in nature and in relation to his fellow- 

 men and other animals, has rendered more evident 

 the concrete fact, that the happiness of each depends 

 upon the happiness of all, and the happiness and 

 welfare of all upon that of each individual, It has 

 also operated in a more apparent, though less im- 



