[40] On the reference to this passage in “The Confessions of a Physician,” by V. Veresaeff, see Appendix [VI].
[41] It is said that the first Lord Aberdare, in presiding over a meeting of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and in warning the society against entering on an anti-vivisection crusade, gave utterance to the delightfully irrelevant remark that he had himself been thrice operated on, and was all the better for it!
[42] See J. Cotter Morrison’s article on “Scientific versus Bucolic Vivisection,” “Fortnightly Review,” 1885.
[43] Professor Jevons, “Fortnightly Review,” 1876.
[44] “Mind in Animals,” translated by Annie Besant.
[45] “The Old Faith and the New.”
[48] “They tell children, perhaps, that they must not be cruel to animals.... What avails all the fine talk about morality, in contrast with acts of barbarism and immorality presented to them on all sides?”—Gustav von Struve.
[49] “Principles of Political Economy.”