174 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP. VI 



about in that condition for hours ; the other has pained 

 the animal no more than one of us would be pained by 

 tying strings round his fingers and keeping him in the 

 position of a hydropathic patient. The first offender says, 

 " I did it because I find fishing very amusing," and the 

 magistrate bids him depart in peace nay, probably 

 wishes him good sport. The second pleads, " I wanted to 

 impress a scientific truth with a distinctness attainable in 

 no other way on the minds of my scholars," and the 

 magistrate fines him five pounds. 



I cannot but think that this is an anomalous and not 

 wholly creditable state of things. 



