The Bishop of Oxford and Prof. Ruskin on vivisection.

  • Mackarness, John Fielder, 1820-1889.
Date:
[1884]
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Credit: The Bishop of Oxford and Prof. Ruskin on vivisection. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    the rabies of all defiance and contradiction to all the law of God had become the madness abroad which was without reason at all, and was setting itself against everything that was once holy, once pure, once reverenced among them. For his part, he thought they must not dwell upon minute questions as to whether this or that quantity of pain was inflicted. The question was that here in Oxford their object was to make their youths and maidens gentle, and it seemed to him that they might at least try to concentrate then- efforts to prevent these subjects of science being brought into contact with the minds of the noblest youths and maidens who came there to be made gentlemen and ladies. Them noblest efforts and energies should be set upon protecting the weak and inform- ing the ignorant of things which might lead them to happiness, peace, and light, and above all other things upon the relation existing between them and the lower creation in this life. He had always said that a gentleman was primarily distinguished by his fellowship with the nobler animals of creation, and the peasant chiefly by the kindness which he showed to every useful one. (Applause.) Victoria Street Society for the Protection of Animals from Vivisection, united with the International Association for the Total Suppression of Vivisection, 1, Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W.