science recognizes any such step in evolution as the step from a
physical organism to an immortal soul. That conceit has been
taken out of all our men of science, and out of all our doctors,
by the evolutionists; and when it is considered how completely
obsessed biological science has become in our days, not by the
full scope of evolution, but by that particular method of it
which has neither sense nor purpose nor life nor anything human,
much less godlike, in it: by the method, that is, of so-called
Natural Selection (meaning no selection at all, but mere dead
accident and luck), the folly of trusting to vivisectors to hold
the human animal any more sacred than the other animals becomes
so clear that it would be waste of time to insist further on it.
As a matter of fact the man who once concedes to the vivisector
the right to put a dog outside the laws of honor and fellowship,
concedes to him also the right to put himself outside them; for
he is nothing to the vivisector but a more highly developed, and
consequently more interesting-to-experiment-on vertebrate than
the dog.


VIVISECTING THE HUMAN SUBJECT

I have in my hand a printed and published account by a doctor of
how he tested his remedy for pulmonary tuberculosis, which was to
inject a powerful germicide directly into the circulation by
stabbing a vein with a syringe. He was one of those doctors who
are able to command public sympathy by saying, quite truly, that
when they discovered that the proposed treatment was dangerous,
they experimented thenceforth on themselves. In this case the
doctor was devoted enough to carry his experiments to the point