574 Experimentation in Biology ; [October, 
dissolve in their triumph after effecting total abolition, or 
send aid abroad ? But every investigator may not have 
facilities to go abroad whenever he wishes to carry on 
research, and it may not be convenient for every English 
constant worker to reside there permanently. Therefore, if 
it be not wrong to viviseft for biological purposes, investiga- 
tors should strive to obtain licenses to do so at home. Is it 
wrong ? 
The answer to this question brings us to a conclusion, — a 
conclusion to an Article endeavouring to show that this 
“ Journal,” having previously conspicuously treated of biolo- 
gical experimentation, ought not to relinquish its mission at 
the moment zoophily is awakening; and, secondly, that 
experimentation has much service to render to zoology in 
the future, and that it has rendered some already ; indeed 
it is only from a judicious sense of my own untitled ob- 
scurity and incomplete knowledge that I refrain from 
expressing the opinion that every further step in comparative 
anatomy is a waste of time and an unrighteous sacrifice of 
animal life ; but we have not yet found an answer to the 
question for zoologists and zoophilists (for one is as much a 
“ scientist ” as the other, for ethics is a science), viz., Is the 
need for the acquisition of knowledge calculated to furnish 
men and women with answers to these questions— Is Evolu- 
tion Darwinian, sub-Darwinian (conditions, use, &c.), or 
Mivartian (psychogenetic) ? is consciousness to be considered 
“ apart ” and as eternal ? — sufficiently imperative to render 
expedient, i.e., moral, the study of any biology involving the 
slaughter, and the captivity of, or the experimentation upon, 
the lower animals ? 
I have considered this subject during the month past, and 
constantly while writing this Article : my conclusions may 
be likened to the space occurring between this Article and 
the previous or one following in this “ Journal.” The sub- 
ject should be discussed by any who happen to be more 
capable, and reflected upon by all it may concern. 
