VIVISECTIONI believe I am not interested to know whether Vivisection produces results
that are profitable to the human race or doesn't. To know that the results
are profitable to the race would not remove my hostility to it. The pains
which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity
towards it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without
looking further. It is so distinctly a matter of feeling with me, and
is so strong and so deeply-rooted in my make and constitution, that I
am sure I could not even see a vivisector vivisected with anything more
than a sort of qualified satisfaction. I do not say I should not go and
look on; I only mean that I should almost surely fail to get out of it
the degree of contentment which it ought, of course, to be expected to
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"Mark Twain" on Sport and Vivisection. The following letter from "Mark Twain," in acknowledgment of his election as honorary member of the London Anti-Vivisection Society has been received by the Secretary: Dear Sir: |
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