Report of the American Humane Association on vivisection and dissection in schools.

  • American Humane Association.
Date:
1895
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Credit: Report of the American Humane Association on vivisection and dissection in schools. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Humanitarian League, who request me to say that in your efforts to check the increasingly prevalent methods of teaching physiology through demonstra- tions upon living animals, you have their unqualified approval and hearty sympathy. ' The man who has the most pity is the best man; is the one most disposed to all social virtues, to nobleness of every sort. He who awakens our com- passion makes us better and more virtuous,' said Less- ing, the great critic; and we may add that he who deadens our pity makes us lower and less virtuous. Rt. Hon. James Stansfeld, M. P., London: I entirely agree with the views of the American Humane Association as expressed in their circular. Hon. George W. E. Russell, M. P., London: I have the deepest dislike and distrust of all experiments on living creatures. To practice such experiments before children and young people is in my judgment to give systematic training in brutality. The organized destruction of natural feeling is producing its certain results, and I have little doubt that experiments not distinguishable from human vivisection are now of frequent occurrence in hos- pitals. I wish you all success in your attempt to crush this brutal wrong. Leslie Stephen, Esq., London, England.: I am most strongly of the opinion that children should be encouraged in every way to be kind to animals; few practical lessons in morality can, I