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a united effort to prohibit all forms of wanton 

 cruelty. It seems a great misfortune that in this 

 age of reform, when the Christian world is becom- 

 ing hopeful, and mankind as a general rule, grow- 

 ing better, that a few inhumane physiologists should 

 insist on shocking, not only the Christian world, 

 but the heathen world, by using the most sickening 

 tortures the devilish nature of man can invent on 

 the living bodies of sensitive beings. Good people 

 are powerless to help, but they turn aside and weep 

 at the indescribable miseries and horrors inflicted 

 upon animals. 



Vivisection has been brought to public notice in 

 the last few years by the continued and persistent 

 barbarous experiments, under the guise of physio- 

 logical science, made on our most gentle and loving 

 animals by the hands of cruel men. Like many 

 other evils which have blotted the pages of the 

 history of man with crime and blood, this is des- 

 tined to continue until the people rise in a mass and 

 cry out, it is enough. How long these poor defense- 

 less animals will be permitted to suffer before that 

 time comes is a heart-breaking problem for kind 

 and good men and women to solve. 



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