“God’s in His Heaven!
All’s right with the world!”
I have had also the good fortune to find other English poets ready to sympathise with me on the subject of Vivisection. Sir Henry Taylor wrote many letters to me upon it and called my attention to his own lines which go so deep into the philosophy of the question, and which I have since quoted so often;
“Pain in Man
Bears the high mission of the flail and fan,
In brutes ’tis purely piteous.”
Here is one of his notes to me:—
“The Roost, Bournemouth,
“November 25th, 1875.
“Dear Miss Cobbe,