Opinions concerning vivisection and dissection in schools.

  • American Humane Association.
Date:
1895
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    The development of the spirit of love, mercy and justice is more important than to turn the school room into a butcher's shop or a dissecting room to gratify an intellectual curiosity. Physiology should have its place in school instruction, but quite as important is the subject of ethics, which includes not only our duties to our fellow beings, but also our duties to animals. Dr. H. W. Pierson, Editor '■'Medical Advance,'' Chicago, III.: Promiscuous vivisection is uncalled for and serves to gratify the baser elements in our nature, whether it be children or adults, and should be condemned by all. Individuals preparing for the special study of the subject of physiology will not have their finer senses blunted by study of the mechanism of the body in life. To all others this should be denied, by law, if necessary. Richard Howell, Editor ''Bridgeport Herald;' Bridge- port, Conn. : There are those upon whom vivisection will have a horrifying effect, but there are many in whom the prac- tice in public schools will develop an inordinate love to be cruel to dumb animals. The plastic mind of the public school pupil is as sensi- tive to an impression as the dry plate of a photographer's outfit, and the impression which vivisection makes upon one of these young minds may develop frightful traits of character. Rev. E. B. Graham, Editor Midland, Chicago, III.: Children should not be allowed to see game shot by cruel sportsmen, or domestic fowls killed even for food ; and much less should they become famiUar with cruelty in the interests of education. Dr. M. L. Holbrook, ^^//^^ '' Herald of Health;' N. Y.: I do not think the slightest good in practice ever