vivisection

• Kinglake's description of "Prince Louis Bonaparte," of his character, his accomplices, his policy, his crimes, is perhaps unequalled in historical literature; I know not where else to look for a vivisection so scientific and so merciless of a great potentate in the height of his power. —  Biographical Study of A W Kinglake
• For a third and last inquiry: justly indignant at the horrors of Continental vivisection, and especially in our own humane England at Dr. Ferrier's red-hot wires thrust into live monkeys 'brains, I have often vainly asked cui bono such terrible cruelty? —  My Life as an Author
• The Commission of 1876, for instance, dealt with vivisection, a matter on which the conscience of the ordinary man is not yet at rest. —  Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work
• It is uncommonly good of the Lord Mayor to stand up for Science, in the teeth of the row the anti-vivisection pack — dogs and doggesses — are making. —  The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
• Either vivisection is a good thing and hence should not be interfered with, or it is a nefarious business and should be stopped .... —  An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals

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