Vivisection, scientifically and ethically considered / in prize essays by James Macaulay, Rev. Brewin Grant, and Abiathar Wall.

  • Macaulay, James, 1817-1902.
Date:
1881
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    PAINFUL EXPERIMENTS ON LIVING ANIMALS SCIENTIFICALLY & ETHICALLY CONSIDERED. 1. Have such experiments been of any scientific value ? Are there not fallacies underlying such a method of interro- gating Nature which, of necessity, vitiate the results ? 2. Assuming, for the sake of argument, that such experi- ments may have been of scientific value, or may have led to the discovery of scientific facts of permanent importance, could such discoveries not have been arrived at by a broad and comprehensive study of natural phenomena, or of those ^uasi-natural facts which are the continual accompaniments of civilisation ? If so, would the latter method of inquiry necessarily have much retarded the dates of such discoveries ? 3. Are such experiments morally justifiable ? Is not their tendency to harden the operator, and blunt his moral sense ? Are they compatible with the moral government of the universe, so far as that can be inferred from the facts of Nature ?