ts character--not specific. If they have done good, could they
not have done just as much if they had used anesthetics? Good is
not the child of cruelty.

_Question_. Do you think that the vivisectionists do their work
without anesthetics? Do they not, as a rule, give something to
deaden pain?

_Answer_. Here is what the trouble is. Now and then one uses
chloroform, but the great majority do not. They claim that it
interferes with the value of the experiment, and, as I said before,
they object to the expense. Why should they care for what the
animals suffer? They inflict the most horrible and useless pain,
and they try the silliest experiments--experiments of no possible
use or advantage.

For instance: They flay a dog to see how long he can live without
his skin. Is this trifling experiment of any importance? Suppose
the dog can live a week or a month or a year, what then? What must
the real character of the scientific wretch be who would try an
experiment like this? Is such a man seeking the good of his fellow-
men?

So, these scientists starve animals until they slowly die; watch
them from day to day as life recedes from the extremities, and
watch them until the final surrender, to see how long the heart
will flutter without food; without water. They keep a diary of
their sufferings, of their whinings and moanings, of their insanity.
And this diary is published and read with joy and eagerness by
other scientists in like experiments. Of what possible use is it
to know how long a dog or horse can live without food?

So, they take animals, dogs and horses, cut through the flesh with
the knife, remove some of the back bone with the chisel, then divide
the spinal marrow, then touch it with red hot wires for the purpose
of finding, as they say, the connection of nerves; and the animal,
thus vivisected, is left to die.

A good man will not voluntarily inflict pain. He will see that
his horse has food, if he can procure it, and if he cannot procure
the food, he will end the sufferings of the animal in the best and
easiest way. So, the good man would rather remain in ignorance as
to how pain is transmitted than to cut open the body of a living
animal, divide the marrow and torture the nerves with red hot iron.
Of what use can it be to take a dog, tie him down and cut out one
of his kidneys to see if he can live with the other?

These horrors are perpetrated only by the cruel and the heartless
--so