Remarks on the use of vivisection as a means of scientific research : in a letter addressed to the Earl of Caernarvon, President of the Society for Preventing Cruelty to Animals / by Richard Jameson.

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1844
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Credit: Remarks on the use of vivisection as a means of scientific research : in a letter addressed to the Earl of Caernarvon, President of the Society for Preventing Cruelty to Animals / by Richard Jameson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    remind him that King Solomon, his pattern of hu- 'manity, killed in one day twenty-two thousand oxen, and as many sheep. These animals, it will be said, were killed to the glory of God. And, I ask, do not the discoveries of Physiology advance his glory ? Are not the facts which that science reveals to us brought forward every day as so many proofs of a designing Providence ?—lepov Xoyov eyw tov ^np^ovp- y{](ra»TOC npac vpvop a\r]9ivov awnOripi, <ai vopi^to tovt elvat Ti]v ovtu)C ewcre|3eiar, ovy^i ei Tavpcov eKUTopf^ac aVTOv TrapwoWac KaraOvaaipi, Kai ra Ma pvp'ia pvpa Ovpia- aaipi Kal Kaalac, aW’ ei yvo'ir]v peu avToc irpuiroc, eVetra Se Kill Tolc aWoic e^rjyriaaipr)v oloc p£V earl ttii> <ro(plai>, otoc Se Trju ^vvapiv, owoioc, Se rrjv j^prjaTOTrjTa^. In the ‘ Animal Creation ’ we more than once meet with the proverb about a good man regarding the life of his beast: upon which I may just observe, that it affords a fresh instance how much easier it is to say fine things about humanity than to practise it. If Solomon regarded the life of his beast, he certainly disregarded that of his brother. This reminds one of what was said of Sterne ; that he could neglect a living mother to weep over a dead ass. To he sure, it was before he wrote the passage I have referred to that Solomon killed Adonijah, but it was long afterwards that he became a votary of Moloch, the chief part of whose worship consisted, as is well known, in offering human sacrifices, Wm. H. Drummond (also a D.D.) follows closely * Gillen.