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the abolition of the slaughter of animals for food, feathers, hides, 
&c. If we do not mistake the authors, the destruction of life in 
self-defence and the compulsory employment of beasts of burden 
will also be restricted. If such is not the doCtrine of the writers 
consistency requires that it should be. 
The work is absolutely saturated with the virus of anti-vivi- 
seCtionism. We quote the following passage : — “ The adept can 
see the human shape in creatures under torture in the physiolo- 
gical laboratory. He can discern the potential form of a man, 
with limbs and lineaments resembling those of his tormentors, 
hidden within the outward form, and writhing and moaning under 
the lacerations of the knife. And he sees also the tiger and the 
devil rapidly developing within the still human forms of the tor- 
turers.” Who is to draw the boundary between the “ intuitions” 
of such adepts or “ epopts ” and the illusions of the fanatic and 
the neuropath ? It would, we fear, be utterly useless to remind 
such morbid minds that nineteen-twentieths of what is called 
vivisection involves no more pain than that inflicted in the ope- 
ration of vaccination, and that in many cases the “ lacerations 
of the knife ” are conspicuous by their absence. If they would 
admit the truth they must know that the total amount of death 
and pain inflicted upon animals in the cause of Science is but as 
the small dust of the balance. For one animal killed or pained 
in the pursuit of knowledge, thousands are slain or tormented in 
other causes, against which society raises not a whisper. Again, 
if we are not to eat animals we must extirpate them in self- 
defence. The struggle for existence, whether we accept it as an 
agent in the process of Evolution or not, is a stern faCt, and it 
says to man, as to every creature, “ destroy or be destroyed ! ” 
In one sense we may thank the authors : physiological experi- 
mentation will be safe if, as they propose, sportsmen, flesh-eaters, 
and dog-fanciers are expelled from the ranks of its enemies. 
We fear this book will make many converts to agnosticism and 
materialism, doCtrines which, however unsatisfactory, are clear, 
wholesome, and luminous as compared with the visionary mys- 
ticism taught in these pages. 
Experimental Chemistry for Junior Students. ByJ. Emerson 
Reynolds, M.D., F.R.S., &c. Part II. — Non-metals. 
London ; Longmans and Co. 
We have here a small manual in which the principal fads and 
the laws of Chemical Science are taught successively in a series 
of experiments adapted to the capacity of junior students. The 
author begins with air and nitrogen. A knowledge of air is 
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