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only an animal, come from one of them myself, and therefore you 

 may argue that I have no feeling, and may ask me to allow 

 myself to be experimented on accordingly for the good of science, 

 but I must beg of you to excuse me. It might interfere rather 

 unpleasantly with my theory, and with the calmness, or to 

 speak more truly, the cool assurance, not to use a stronger word 

 which a " Philosopher " ought to exhibit to the public when he 

 lays down the law to them. No one more ready than a Philoso- 

 pher to cry out even before he is nurt ; but he has no feeling for 

 dumb animals : he keeps all he has for himself.* 



I believe it would be highly imprudent in me (Huxley) to accept 

 the challenge which was thrown down to me at the meeting of 

 the British Association in 1874, to meet the challenger face to face 

 before the public and discuss the truth or otherwise of my 

 assertions. On the contrary, though I have the advantage of a 

 good memory, a fluent tongue, and any amount you please of 

 assurance, if you will oblige me by using so mild a term, I 

 altogether shrink from the touchstone of common sense. Theory 

 and assertion are all I have to do with, to which I always make 

 it a rule (a very convenient one) to bend any given number of 

 facts. Parvum in multo is my motto. 



* I here add some few of the terms applied to the places, persons, and 

 practices referred to, by many eminent men : A " Hell," (Sir ARTHUR 

 HELPS) ; " Abominable and atrocious," (LORD SHAFTESBURY) ; " Hellish,'' 

 (DR. KITCHING); ''Atrocious crimes," "Barbarities," "Wickedness," 

 " Worse than the worst Inquisitors, Dens of torture," Disgrace to Science,'' 

 " Xever surpassed in impudence," " Polluters of the minds of School 

 Children," " Eumans," " Young reprobates," "Perpetrators of atrocities,'' 

 " Spouters of Blasphemy and Infidelity," " Professors of Brutality," " Worse 

 than Heathen persecutors," " Deceivers of the people," " Scientific crimes,'' 

 " An outrage to the moral sense of every human being who is not as de- 

 praved as themselves," " A few brutalized physiologists," " who go whining 

 about the country with the importunity of beggars, because every'right. 

 minded man and woman in the country is not compelled by law to con- 

 tribute his or her hard-earned wages to support the perpetration of crimes 

 which they abhor, (DR. W. B. A. SCOTT.) "Disgraceful butchery," 

 " devilish," " loathsome," " fiendish," " would disgrace the lowest type of 

 ravages," " merciless and unpitying,'" " demons," " devilry," " wretches," 

 " a depraved instinct," " frightfully horrible," " disgraceful butchery,'' 

 "devilish torment" "horrible " "abominable devilry," "brutal beyond 

 conception," " useless beyond belief ," "all most horrible," " a disgrace to the 

 profession," " brutal deeds," (A LONDON SURGEON, Mr. Waldron Bradley, 

 in the Echo.') " Detestable villanies, protracted butcheries, degrading the 



