Great Testimony - against scientific cruelty

Great Testimony, by Stephen Coleridge
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Title: Great Testimony against scientific cruelty Author: Stephen Coleridge
Release Date: July 16, 2008 [eBook #26074] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GREAT TESTIMONY***
Transcribed from the 1918 John Lane edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
GREAT TESTIMONY AGAINST SCIENTIFIC CRUELTY :: COLLECTED AND EDUCED BY :: THE HONBLE. STEPHEN COLERIDGE WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON: JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY MCMXVIII
PRINTED BY WILLIAM BRENDON AND SON, LTD., PLYMOUTH, ENGLAND
p. iv
PREFACE
If the support of great and good men, famous throughout Christendom, will avail to justify a cause, then indeed we who would utterly abolish the torture of animals by vivisection can never be put out of countenance. Difficult would it be indeed to bring together the authority of so many resounding reputations against any other act of man, since slavery was abolished. The poets, philosophers, saints and seers of England have united to anathematise it as an abomination, and as a deed only possible to a craven. It ...