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o f children in the same city who had not had a decent dinner
in their lives. Such is the dire influence of dog and cat worship
on the human intelligence and conscience, and yet the anti-
vivisectionists boast o f their addiction to the vice.
Everybody ought to read Mr. Shaw’s speech, for it shows
how inane a really able man may become when he devotes him
self to a cause which is at the same time both silly and wicked.
A good specimen o f the dense ignorance he displays is to be
found in this sentence: “ I wish myself that the vivisectors could
be induced to perform some really scientific experiments upon
themselves.” This implies, o f course, that they never have done
so, and doubtless Mr. Shaw would go on repeating his dull
falsehood, even if somebody should tell him of the medical
officers who inoculated themselves Avith the yellow fever at Ha
vana; of the scientists who permitted poisonous insects to bite
them on the Roman Campagna, and o f the young experimenter
who tried upon his own body the effect o f cancer virus. What
ever may be said for or against the physicians and other men
of science, they have never hesitated to put their theories to the
supreme test of a trial on their own persons. Their courage in
this particular far surpasses what is required of a soldier on
the battlefield. It is easy for Mr. Bernard Shaw and the coterie
of shrews and imbeciles who train with him to rail at physi
cians and assert that their experiments on living animals are a
systematic cultivation of cruelty, b u t one may predict safely
enough that in all the multitude of the anti-vivisectionists there
is not a single individual who ever willingly made the smallest
sacrifice o f his own bodily comfort for the good o f the human
race. They are all o f them completely satisfied when they have
secured the comfort of their pet dogs and cats. They are the
most selfish people in the whole world. Where will you find
anybody else who is willing to doom thousands of human beings
to death for the sake of gratifying his own vanity? That is
precisely what the anti-vivisectionists would like to do.
The problems which now confront physicians cannot be
solved without making experiments on living animals. We are
compelled, therefore, to choose between inflicting some trans
itory pain on a few cats and monkeys and permitting such dis
eases as cancer to ravage mankind without a remedy. The anti-
vivisectionist prefers to spare the beasts and let human beings
perish in hopeless misery. They have won so much support in
Great Britain that they have substantially stopped the progress
of medical research there. British physicians who wish to do
scientific work have to go to the continent for an opportunity.
I f the animal worshipers can accomplish their purpose they
will do the same thing in America. They openly avow their in
tention to close the Rockefeller and Buffalo research hospitals.
They will put an end to medical experiment in every laboratory
o f children in the same city who had not had a decent dinner
in their lives. Such is the dire influence of dog and cat worship
on the human intelligence and conscience, and yet the anti-
vivisectionists boast o f their addiction to the vice.
Everybody ought to read Mr. Shaw’s speech, for it shows
how inane a really able man may become when he devotes him
self to a cause which is at the same time both silly and wicked.
A good specimen o f the dense ignorance he displays is to be
found in this sentence: “ I wish myself that the vivisectors could
be induced to perform some really scientific experiments upon
themselves.” This implies, o f course, that they never have done
so, and doubtless Mr. Shaw would go on repeating his dull
falsehood, even if somebody should tell him of the medical
officers who inoculated themselves Avith the yellow fever at Ha
vana; of the scientists who permitted poisonous insects to bite
them on the Roman Campagna, and o f the young experimenter
who tried upon his own body the effect o f cancer virus. What
ever may be said for or against the physicians and other men
of science, they have never hesitated to put their theories to the
supreme test of a trial on their own persons. Their courage in
this particular far surpasses what is required of a soldier on
the battlefield. It is easy for Mr. Bernard Shaw and the coterie
of shrews and imbeciles who train with him to rail at physi
cians and assert that their experiments on living animals are a
systematic cultivation of cruelty, b u t one may predict safely
enough that in all the multitude of the anti-vivisectionists there
is not a single individual who ever willingly made the smallest
sacrifice o f his own bodily comfort for the good o f the human
race. They are all o f them completely satisfied when they have
secured the comfort of their pet dogs and cats. They are the
most selfish people in the whole world. Where will you find
anybody else who is willing to doom thousands of human beings
to death for the sake of gratifying his own vanity? That is
precisely what the anti-vivisectionists would like to do.
The problems which now confront physicians cannot be
solved without making experiments on living animals. We are
compelled, therefore, to choose between inflicting some trans
itory pain on a few cats and monkeys and permitting such dis
eases as cancer to ravage mankind without a remedy. The anti-
vivisectionist prefers to spare the beasts and let human beings
perish in hopeless misery. They have won so much support in
Great Britain that they have substantially stopped the progress
of medical research there. British physicians who wish to do
scientific work have to go to the continent for an opportunity.
I f the animal worshipers can accomplish their purpose they
will do the same thing in America. They openly avow their in
tention to close the Rockefeller and Buffalo research hospitals.
They will put an end to medical experiment in every laboratory
