Great Testimony against scientific crueltyColeridge, Stephen
Philosophy
Great Testimony against scientific cruelty
Coleridge, Stephen
Vivisection
Archbishop McEvilly, of Tuam; Archbishop Crozier, Primate of Ireland;
Archbishop Bagshawe; Bishop Westcott, of Durham; Bishop Moule, of Durham;
Bishop Harold Browne, of Winchester; Bishop Lord Arthur Hervey, of Bath
and Wells; Bishop Ryle, of Liverpool; Bishop Walsham How, of Wakefield;
Bishop Ridding, of Southwell; Bishop Moorhouse, of Manchester; Bishop
Mackarness, of Oxford; Bishop Chinnery-Haldane, of Argyll and the Isles;
Bishop Barry, Primate of Australia; Dean Kichten. Archdeacon
Wilberforce; Father Ignatius; General Booth, the founder of the Salvation
Army; Spurgeon; Hugh Price Hughes; Newman Hall; James Martineau; Stopford
Brooke.
Among prominent teachers and scholars and philosophers and writers and
artists and lawyers I find the following:--
Alfred Russel Wallace, Freeman, Froude, Leslie Stephen, Richard Holt
Hutton, Sir Henry Taylor, Sir Lewis Morris, George Macdonald, Blackmore,
Wilkie Collins, "Lewis Carroll," Robert Buchanan, Justin McCarthy, Sir
Arthur Arnold, Mrs. Somerville, Julia Wedgwood, Sir Edward Burne-Jones,
Walter Crane, Sir Henry Irving, Lord Brampton (Mr. Justice Hawkins), and
Lord Chief Baron Kelly.
I have made no research for great names in foreign countries, but some of
the most illustrious stand prominently before the world representing the
three greatest continental races:
Victor Hugo, Wagner, Tolstoy, Voltaire, Schopenhauer, Rousseau.
Here then I have brought together a very glorious company justifying the
title I have affixed to this book.
NOTE
From this great cloud of witnesses I have omitted all those leaders of
thought and morals, "friends of the wise and teachers of the good"
supporters of this great cause who are living. I followed a like reserve
in my "Memories," making in them none but passing allusions to famous
persons still alive. I do not share the modern journalistic habit of
uninvited public intrusion upon living people who may very well be
unwilling at the moment to be dragged into controversy or exposed to
insult; and every one knows that the vivisectors and their friends have
no manners, and flout all the Hague conventions of debate.
Books by the Hon. Stephen Coleridge
VIVISECTION:
A HEARTLESS SCIENCE
_Crown_ 8_vo_, 5_s._ _net_.
SOME PRESS OPINIONS.
_Times_.--"Mr. Coleridge is a leading champion of the anti-vivisection
cause, and he here presents a reasoned indictment of the practice. He is
a very able advocate, who generally gets the better of his opponent in a
dialectical bout, and this book is written with great skill and force."
_Western Mail_.--"One cannot fail to be interested and impressed by the
forensic power and ability in this book and by the humane spirit which
has led to its compilation. Mr. Coleridge brings all his power of wit,
irony, and sarcasm to the aid of his scientific knowledge."
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