Vivisection in America : I. How it is taught II. How it is practised / by Frances Power Cobbe and Benjamin Bryan.

  • Cobbe, Frances Power, 1822-1904.
Date:
1890
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Credit: Vivisection in America : I. How it is taught II. How it is practised / by Frances Power Cobbe and Benjamin Bryan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I cannot believe it possible that the interests of medical science require the vivisection of animals. Yours truly, Wm. E. Chandler. Philip G. Peabody, Esq. From Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, Rector of Trinity Parish, New York : — New York, April ist, i8go. Philip G. Peabody, Esq., Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law, 18 Richfield Street, Boston: My dear Sir, — I acknowledge receipt of your communi- cation of the 20th ulto., together with a copy of your pam- phlet entitled Vivisection in America. You request me to read that pamphlet. I respectfully decline to do so, as the subject is too horrible for consideration. I have read ac- counts of the tortures inflicted in the name of Science on the creatures committed to our care or placed in our power by a Divine Providence, and they have made me sick at heart for. weeks together. I shall never peruse these frightful statistics again. I have also read what arguments are made in extenuation or recommendation of the practice, and their only effect has been to strengthen my conviction that man is capable of becoming the most barbarous and most merciless of all agents. I gladly join with any one who protests against the abuse of our power over confiding and intelligent animals. The lower creation is a deep mystery. There are in it intelligent and sensitive beings with virtues which man may well imitate, and with qualities which inspire affection. God has given us dominion over them and powers which we ought not to abuse; and when I go into His presence I wish to be able to tell Him that I abhor, detest, and protest against the tortures of these poor creatures under the pre- tence of thereby benefiting our own lordly race. You may make what use you please of this letter. I remain, in conclusion, Respectfully yours, Morgan Dix.