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BERNARD SHAW ON VIVISECTION.
It is pretty certain that, if the great majority of sensible men
were opposed to vivisection, the eminent George Bernard Shaw
would favor it, but inasmuch as every scientist in the world of
any repute and every ordinary citizen who cares a fig for the
welfare of the human race, look to vivisection as our only sal
vation from numerous ills. Mr. Shaw violently condemns it.
He has risen to a proud station among the members of the Brit
ish Union for the Abolition o f Vivisection. This was to be
expected, for when Mr. Shaw made up his mind to join a so
ciety of fools, naturally nothing would satisfy him short of be
ing the biggest fool of the lot. The ignorance and prejudice
which he exhibited in a widely-published address to the union,
not long ago, show that his eminence has been worthily won.
An anti-vivisectionist speech, which did not contain at least
a score of falsehoods, would be rather flat. I f it treated phy
sicians and men o f science with anything like common fairness,
the speaker would be hooted. Anti-vivisection thrives on a diet
composed half o f deliberate lying and half of mawkish conceit.
In the speech to which we have referred, Bernard Shaw says
over and over again that vivisection has accomplished nothing
for the good o f mankind or the increase of knowledge. State
ments of this sort display absence of conscience, which would
be incredible in anybody but an animal worshiper but it is
notable that men and women who have devoted themselves to
the religious cult of dogs, cats and monkeys lose every vestige
o f feeling for the woes of their own kind. No women are so
utterly insensible to human suffering as those who have become
the slaves o f a pet dog. To see some o f them grovel before their
ugly little idols is enough to make a person ashamed of his
species. T h e .dog worshiper in general not only becomes de
humanized to an astonishing degree, but he even boasts o f his
mania as if it were something to take pride in. “ I am a lover of
dogs,” he cries from the housetops. Did you ever hear one of
these infatuated monsters proclaim his love for his fellow man?
Or take a woman who has fallen a victim to the cat cult. Be
hold how she prostrates herself before her fetish. She conse
crates every waking hour to its service, dreams of it by night
and when she dies it is bounteously remembered in her will.
There are instances of besotted females who have left fort
unes of $10,000 for the support o f a pet cat! To a beloved and
adored dog now and then $30,000 or $40,000 have been left by
some dying idiot for luxurious maintenance. Only the other
day there was a story in the papers of a poodle dog which had
long enjoyed the income from a bequest of this sort. It finally
died from a surfeit brought on by dining on a whole chicken,
followed by a pound of candy. Meanwhile there were thousands
BERNARD SHAW ON VIVISECTION.
It is pretty certain that, if the great majority of sensible men
were opposed to vivisection, the eminent George Bernard Shaw
would favor it, but inasmuch as every scientist in the world of
any repute and every ordinary citizen who cares a fig for the
welfare of the human race, look to vivisection as our only sal
vation from numerous ills. Mr. Shaw violently condemns it.
He has risen to a proud station among the members of the Brit
ish Union for the Abolition o f Vivisection. This was to be
expected, for when Mr. Shaw made up his mind to join a so
ciety of fools, naturally nothing would satisfy him short of be
ing the biggest fool of the lot. The ignorance and prejudice
which he exhibited in a widely-published address to the union,
not long ago, show that his eminence has been worthily won.
An anti-vivisectionist speech, which did not contain at least
a score of falsehoods, would be rather flat. I f it treated phy
sicians and men o f science with anything like common fairness,
the speaker would be hooted. Anti-vivisection thrives on a diet
composed half o f deliberate lying and half of mawkish conceit.
In the speech to which we have referred, Bernard Shaw says
over and over again that vivisection has accomplished nothing
for the good o f mankind or the increase of knowledge. State
ments of this sort display absence of conscience, which would
be incredible in anybody but an animal worshiper but it is
notable that men and women who have devoted themselves to
the religious cult of dogs, cats and monkeys lose every vestige
o f feeling for the woes of their own kind. No women are so
utterly insensible to human suffering as those who have become
the slaves o f a pet dog. To see some o f them grovel before their
ugly little idols is enough to make a person ashamed of his
species. T h e .dog worshiper in general not only becomes de
humanized to an astonishing degree, but he even boasts o f his
mania as if it were something to take pride in. “ I am a lover of
dogs,” he cries from the housetops. Did you ever hear one of
these infatuated monsters proclaim his love for his fellow man?
Or take a woman who has fallen a victim to the cat cult. Be
hold how she prostrates herself before her fetish. She conse
crates every waking hour to its service, dreams of it by night
and when she dies it is bounteously remembered in her will.
There are instances of besotted females who have left fort
unes of $10,000 for the support o f a pet cat! To a beloved and
adored dog now and then $30,000 or $40,000 have been left by
some dying idiot for luxurious maintenance. Only the other
day there was a story in the papers of a poodle dog which had
long enjoyed the income from a bequest of this sort. It finally
died from a surfeit brought on by dining on a whole chicken,
followed by a pound of candy. Meanwhile there were thousands
