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Credit: The modern rack; papers on vivisection. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![refresh ourselves for a second bout of the same interesting experi- ments. Eloa {whose eyes have grown large with horror during this read- ing, flings herself i?ito the arms of St. Raphael. Oh, my brother ! my glorious Archangel! spare these poor wretches ! It is impos- sible your noble nature can descend to inflict such torment even on the meanest of God's creatures. Raphael. Dear Eloa ! Must I remind you that your unfortu- nate habit of compassionating unworthy objects has ere now led you into terrible mistakes? Do you forget how you followed Lucifer himself into Gehenna when he told you his pitiful tale, and how, when he had got you there, he clutched you fast, and said you should remain and be lost with him for ever j and how it was Justice, and not Pity, which delivered you, so that you might warn your sex never to follow your foolish example ? Bahman, Lord of the Animals* {here stands forward among the group of student-Cherubim). Most noble Archangel and brother Cherubim ! I think it becomes me to speak in this matter. Do you understand, beloved and gentle Eloa, that these men have already done all these hideous things to my poor, harmless, unoffending birds and brutes ? Do you know that they have tortured them for hours and days, by scores and by hundreds, and taught thoughtless youths to stifle every emotion of compassion and do the like, multiplying and repeating every form and kind of agony again and yet again? Do you know that the clanking engines, which maintain breath in the curarised and doubly- suffering creatures, never cease working in their accursed labora- tories by day or night; and that they lie down to sleep leaving their mangled victims on their torture-troughs, waiting for the morrow's fresh anguish ? Do you know that one of these men alone has been known to have tried his infernal devices on no less than fourteen thousand dogs, beside uncounted numbers of other sensitive creatures ? \Eloa sobs convulsively\ and at last covers Jier face and slowly leaves the hall.'] * One of the seven Amshaspands. Vide Zend-AvestoJ](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21225734_0260.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
