The new morality : an inquiry into the ethics of anti-vivisection / by L. Lind-af-Hageby.

  • Lizzy Lind af Hageby
Date:
1911
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    mental kinship of all that breathes upon this planet. Why should he shut his ears to the tales of progress of physics, chemistry, geology, astronomy, or to the lessons of radio-activity and the latest views of matter? Hven the limit, the impotence of physical science is replete with signs to him. Such studies will reveal to him the coarseness of the vivisectional methods, and the constant advance of intellectual criticism of scientific procedure will show him that the day must come when science itself will, without protest, discard a method of biological research which destroys the very conditions which it professes to interpret. His aim is to make the quest of natural knowledge conform to the growth of moral consciousness, and he can only do this by being alike a student of morals and of science. It is therefore not out of place to speak of the scence of anti-vivisection, meaning thereby the pursuit of knowledge which will rationalise anti-vivisection. The Essential Unity of the Morals and the Sctence of HntieVivisection, The intellectual criticism of vivisection—the demonstration of its scientific perversity and practical failures—need not imply any disregard of the priority of the moral objection to the practice. ‘ That which is morally wrong cannot be scientifically right ” is an ethical aphorism often repeated by anti-vivisectionists, though not always with adequate comprehension of the profound beauty of this truth in a verbal nutshell. For if a more philosophic recognition of its full
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