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seekers after notoriety or salary ” ; and further, that “ it has 
been possible for certain anti-vivisedtors, by a persistent 
course of malignant vituperation and brazen mendacity, to 
produce a widespread belief,” &c. 
Of course if we were to give one-half the cases where 
Bestiarian advocates have dealt in untruths, ranging from 
exaggeration, suppressio veri, false insinuation, garbled 
quotation, &c., down to direct, intentional, and conscious 
falsehood, a monthly number of the “Journal of Science ” 
would not suffice. The leaders of the “ movement ” well know 
that if they only persist in throwing dirt, some of it will stick. 
They know, too, that a false accusation may be made in 
very few words, whilst its refutation, requiring more, is less 
likely to be read. They have developed a fertility in deceit 
from which— even if Jesuitism were all that ultra-Protestant 
fancy pictures it— the wiliest Jesuit might learn much. But 
a couple of the most flagrant instances must be quoted. 
There is in Germany a certain Herr von Weber, who is the 
head of the Bestiarian movement in Germany. This Weber, 
a “ Knight of high orders,” as he styles himself, has written 
a book entitled the “ Torture-Chambers of Science.” In 
this he asserts (edit. 5, pp. n and 26) that Prof. Goltz did 
not make use of anaesthetics in his researches on dogs, — 
experiments which the Professor has described in a special 
work. Now in the Introduction to that work it is expressly 
stated that all the animals operated upon were, before the 
commencement of the experiment, brought thoroughly under 
the influence of chloroform ! Weber cannot escape by 
pleading ignorance, — though that would be no legitimate 
excuse, since his work, the “ Torture-Chambers,” supplies 
abundant evidence that he has carefully studied the writings 
of Prof. Goltz. (See Prof. Goltz’s “ Rechtfertigung eines 
Vivisedtors.” Strassburg : K. J. Trubner.) 
Hardened by practice, Weber went on to accuse a phy- 
sician of having vivisected a man. This case was brought 
before the Courts, and Weber was condemned to imprison- 
ment for libellous falsehood. His accomplice, the editor of 
a German Bestiarian organ, shared the same fate. These 
be the gods of Bestiarianism ! 
The Bestiarians have also falsely claimed Darwin, Cuvier, 
Bell, and Hyrtl as authorities on their side. In refutation 
we must refer to Darwin’s letter to Prof. Holmgren, to 
Cuvier’s eloge of Flourens, and to the works of Bell and 
Hyitl. In shoit, mendacity may be pronounced the warp, 
and ignorance and the love of ignorance the weft, of the 
Anti-Viviseftion Movement. 
