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“ hearing both sides of the question ” — amounted to 
harangues from partizans, who, if legally qualified medical 
pradtitioners, have scant right to come forward as the repre- 
sentatives of the profession, and still scantier claim to speak 
on behalf of Science. 
It is further interesting to mark the motives underlying 
no small portion of anti-vivisedtionist enthusiasm. The 
movement, like all agitations, ministers to the vanity of not 
a few individuals, and enables them to gain the ear and the 
favouring notice of a certain sedtion of the public. More- 
over, the competitive element, so dearly loved in modern 
England, is not wanting. There are several societies for 
the suppression of Vivisedtion, all in full accord as far as 
enmity to biological research is concerned, but jealous of 
each other touching the kudos , or the more tangible rewards 
to be earned. In our colledtion of Anti-Vivisedlionist lite- 
rature we find such advertisements as the following : — 
“ The Society has no connection with any other. The 
public is cautioned against persons pirating its publications, 
and endeavouring without any authority to obtain money.” 
“ One of the new Societies was set on foot in the hope of 
supplanting the original Society and appropriating its funds 
by an intrigue, but the attempt was defeated. It has also 
pirated our publications, and we are now endeavouring to 
obtain legal redress. We think the public should be in- 
formed of these fadts, and warned against professional human- 
itarians and social parasites , who, as is too often the case, try 
to obtain celebrity or to live and fatten by any humane enter- 
prise. Like the Seigneur Manuel Ordonez, in Gil Bias, they 
become rich in managing the affairs of the poor.” This 
truthful and damaging exposure of the character of the 
movement bears the signature of one of its most vehement 
champions ! 
Or, lastly, does Mr. Dolan wish to spare the feelings of 
the Anti-Vivisedtionists in the hope of conciliating or dis- 
arming their hostility ? It is poor policy, we would remind 
him, to run away from a fanatic, a lunatic, or a mad bull. 
He merely gathers courage from the timidity of his adver- 
sary. The present Vivisedtion Adt was an attempt at con- 
ciliation. Its result has been merely an intensification and 
extension of the uproar it was intended to pacify. Are the 
Anti-Vivisedtionists really worthy of such consideration as 
Mr. Dolan proposes to show them ? 
But to proceed : the ledturer tells us that “ Cruelty to 
animals is abhorred by medical men : I need not tell you 
I allude to unnecessary cruelty.” But if we define cruelty 
