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m1lHnn and veal, duck and turkey, oysters and lobsters, furs 
d feathers or with “ manly " sports and the compulsory 
Lrvicefof beasts of burden. We plead merely for some 
roach to logical consistency, and we plead in vam. S 
far^as we can see, one man, and one only, if such exist, is 
inteUeftually and morally free to take up his parable against 
“ vivisection ’’—the man who holds it wrong to mfliCt pa 
or death upon the lower animals for any purpose, and who 
lives up to his profession. Such a person might egi ima e y 
institute a “ zoophilist ” crusade, and might, undoubtedly, 
f r Lntrlit nroner begin by attacking experimental 
lf i h ? ft w g Tn so doing he, at least, would not be open 
.,5* t u e charges of inconsistency and hypocrisy, 
tvheiher- he wouwS ?he mendacity (vhich clings hke 
Gehazi’s leprosy to agitators is another question. 
Bufwe must now turn from Mr. Robertson and his most 
ahfe exposure of the sophisms of Miss Cobbe to the produc- 
tion which we have bracketed along with his memoir. The 
anonymous authoress is so wild in her statements and het 
ideas that Miss Cobbe, Mrs. ICingsford, and. hei otli 
colleagues seem, in comparison, calm, consistent, a _ 
rational. 68 Her circular, o? whatever it may be called^. s 
Vio n renrint from a London journal. 
It “be ^from the “ Zoophilist,” the “Police News,” or the 
“ Spectator ” we do not care to inquire. But we must say 
that It consists of misstatements in tadt blended with almost 
everv possible variety of fallacy-such an Augean stable of 
misconception and misrepresentation that no man knows 
where to begin its exposure. It is sad, pitiful in 
extreme that in a so-called civilized country even one person 
can be found to write as this anonymous lady has written 
sadder and more pitiable still that in some quarters she 
evidently meets with sympathy. She begins by pioposing 
?hat condemned criminals, instead of rabbits, guinea-pigs 
, ,, s & c shall be made the subjects of physiological 
experiments. She asks why a dodtor may not go to a con- 
demned cell and say: “ There is an operation to banned 
in the hospital the day after to-morrow. It is useless to u 
animals for it because their bodies are not m the least like ours 
(sic ') and the results are not much, if any. If you like to 
accent the risk you may. It will be to my interest that you 
suffer as little as possible, and to the honour of my profession 
if vou survive the operation. If you recover, you are granted 
a free pardon unless you repeat your crime of murder and 
br “ve Z’stfirat call attention to the words which we have 
