es pertaining to any other subject. The closed laboratory
evinces the desire and intention to "move freely," without criticism
or restraint.

No physician in America of Dr. Bigelow's eminence has ever stated so
distinctly the fact of torment in vivisection, and the reasons for its
condemnation:

"A man about to be burned under a railroad car begs somebody to kill
him; the Hindoo suttee has been abolished for its inhumanity; and yet
it is a statement to be taken literally that a brief death by burning
would be considered a happy release by a human being undergoing the
experience of some of the animals who slowly die in a laboratory.
Scientific vivisection has all the engrossing fascination of other
physical sciences, BUT THE TRANSCENDENT TORTURE SOMETIMES INFLICTED
HAS NO PARALLEL IN ANY OF THEM. As to its extent, we read that in
course of ten years seventeen thousand dogs were dissected alive in
one laboratory."

Why, then, does not a universal protest arise against such infamous
cruelty? On this point Dr. Bigelow is very frank. It is because of
the confidence which the general public places in the average
scientist. Is he deserving of that implicit faith? Dr. Bigelow does
not think so. He says:

"The difficulty is that the community, for want of time or opportunity
themselves to investigate the subject, ARE WILLING TO RELY UPON THE
DISCRETION OF SCIENTIFIC MEN. This is an error.... A recent
distinguished writer, a good judge of men, makes the following
observation: `Who can say why the votaries of science, though
eminently kind in their social relations, are so angular of character?
In my analysis of the scientific nature, I am constrained to associate
with it (as compared with that of men who are more Christians than
scientists) A CERTAIN HARDNESS, OR RATHER INDELICACY OF FEELING. They
strike me as being ... coolly indifferent to the warmer human
feelings.'[1]

[1] Sir Henry M. Stanley, "In Darkest Africa."

"It should not for a moment be supposed that cultivation of the
intellect leads a man to shrink from inflicting pain. Many educated
men are no more humane--are, in fact, far less so--than many
comparatively uneducated people.... The more eminent the
vivisectionist, the more indifferent he usually is to inflicting pain;
however cultivated his intellect, he is sometimes absolutely
indifferent to it....

"But in order to oppose vivisection to best advantage, and especially
lest he should place him