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Dr. Arthur Beale

Victorian Age


Source Documents1896-Jul | Dr. Arthur Beale, "Why I Oppose Vivisection, No. 12," Animals' Friend Magazine Animals' Friend Magazine [London:1894-?] 2 (1896 Jul): 174-175; Online at Animal Rights History, 2003.

Why I Oppose Vivisection

Dr. Arthur Beale in "Why I Oppose Vivisection," convinced that "vivisection is [not] important, useful or justifiable," bases his argument on both scientific and moral reasons.

I…oppose vivisection to–day from a strong conviction—first, that it is a course entirely at variance with true culture and the progress of society; second, that it is a method of research entirely unscientific; third, that it accumulates facts which, as honourable members of my own profession have said, are not only useless but directly harmful, as they only confuse the mind; fourth, on moral grounds.

If we grant that vivisection is necessary, man is the proper medium— experiments on animals are so confusing.

I unhesitatingly say that if he who declares vivisection to be necessary will not yield his own living body to the knife, but instead secures an inoffensive animal for the purpose, and then dares to say this is for the sake of humanity, he is no scientist, but an arrant coward and hypocrite.


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[1876-1901] Victorian-Late
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Against Cruelty to Animals
[ Victorian ] Dr. Arthur Beale
[ Victorian ] John Clarke
[1822-1904] Frances Power Cobbe
[ Victorian ] Rev. William Day
[1835-1918] James Drummond
[1831-1895] John Fox
[1823-1892] Edward Freeman
[1845-1916] Albert Leffingwell
[ Victorian ] Wilfrid Lescher
[1817-1902] James Macaulay
[1829-1888] Edward Nicholson
[1829-1888] Henry Oxenham
[1851-1939] Henry Salt
[ Victorian ] Carl Spencer
[1845-1899] Lawson Tait
[1835-1910] Mark Twain
[1837-1931] Howard Williams



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Antiquity-Middle Ages
Ancient Animal Rights Law
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[BCE-3rdc.] Mythical-Divine Origin; Antiquity—Classical Literature
[3rdc.-1485] Early Church Fathers, Old-Middle English Period

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[1485-1660] English Renaissance

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[1660-1689] Restoration
[1689-1745] Augustan Age-Pope
[1745-1785] Age of Sensibility

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[1785-1798] Burns-Cowper
[1798-1806] Wordsworth
[1806-1837] Byron, Martin's Act

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[1837-1876] Early Victorian Age
[1876-1901] Late Victorian Age

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[1901-1914] Edwardian Age
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