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Great Testimony against scientific cruelty - Stephen Coleridge
Stephen Coleridge
Great Testimony against scientific cruelty
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I: THE SEVENTH EARL OF SHAFTESBURY, K.G. FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY
CHAPTER II: MISS FRANCES POWER COBBE
CHAPTER III: CARDINAL MANNING VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY
CHAPTER IV: ROBERT BROWNING VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY died the 12th of december , 1889
CHAPTER V: LORD COLERIDGE chief justice of england vice-president of the national anti-vivisection society
CHAPTER VI: JOHN RUSKIN
CHAPTER VII: DR. JOHNSON
CHAPTER VIII: THOMAS CARLYLE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY
CHAPTER IX: TENNYSON VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY
CHAPTER X: CARDINAL NEWMAN
CHAPTER XI: THREE GREAT CHURCHMEN
CHAPTER XII: QUEEN VICTORIA
CHAPTER XIII: COMPASSED ABOUT WITH SO GREAT A CLOUD OF WITNESSES
NOTE
Books by the Hon. Stephen Coleridge
VIVISECTION: A HEARTLESS SCIENCE
SONGS TO DESIDERIA
MEMORIES
AN EVENING IN MY LIBRARY AMONG THE ENGLISH POETS
PREFACE
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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 seems strange that in the face of such authentic condemnation the horrid practice has not disappeared off the face of the civilised earth, until it is observed that it has received the shameless support of science, which for two generations has usurped an authority over conduct for which it possesses no credentials. The modern prostration of mankind before science is a vile idolatry. In the realm of ethics science is not constructive but destructive. It exalts the Tree of Knowledge and depresses the Tree of Life.
How is the character of man elevated or purified by all the maddening inventions of science? How indeed! Are we made better men by being whirled about the globe by machinery, by the increased opportunities for limitless volubility, or by the ingenious devices for mutual destruction? And how are we morally advantaged by the knowledge of the infinite depths of space, the composition of the stars and the motions of the planets?
The old Persian, when his far-travelled offspring returned with these wonders to tell, replied: My son, thou sayest that one star spinneth about another star; let it spin!
And Ruskin once remarked: Newton explained why an apple fell, but he never thought of explaining the exactly correlative, but infinitely more difficult question, how the apple got up there.
The dead and dreary law of gravitation made it fall, but the glorious law of life, known only to God, drew it up out of the earth and hung it in all its inexplicable wonder high in the air.
And I think herein is a very good parable applicable to ourselves and our age.
Science has found out that everything in the Universe is falling towards everything else, or trying to do so, and we are so absorbed in this deciduous discovery that we have forgotten to look up and observe the