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John Clarke

Victorian Age


Source Documents1884-May-03 | John Clarke, letter to the editor, "The Vivisection Report " Spectator 57 (1884 May 03): 582; Online at AnimalRightsHistory.Org, 2003.

The Vivisection Report

That the Official Report on Vivisection is a trustworthy document…is not the case most doctors and all medical students well know.…Any one who wishes to know what the Report is worth should compare the sickening details with the words of the Inspector. The latter draws his information from the experimenters themselves.


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[1876-1901] Victorian-Late
Animal Welfare-Animal Rights Activists-Advocates-Quotes
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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Animal Welfare-Animal Rights Activists-Advocates-Authors Legislators and Educators continuing struggle for Animal Rights, Animal Welfare and Humane Education Against Cruelty to Animals can be seen throughout history in the words and actions of so many individuals. As Primary Source Historical Literature on Animal Rights, Animal Welfare & Humanity Against Cruelty to Animals is made available online, our Animal Rights Timeline, Humane Education Resource, Library-Archive of Primary Source Historical Literature will include not only the more noted events and authors of Animal Rights and the Humane Movement Against Cruelty to Animals, but lesser known advocates as well.

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

Renaissance
Early Anti-Cruelty Legislation
[1485-1660] English Renaissance

Enlightenment
Articles-Letters-Enlightenment
Pleas for Laws to Protect Animals
[1660-1689] Restoration
[1689-1745] Augustan Age-Pope
[1745-1785] Age of Sensibility

Romantic Age
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Modern Legislative Beginnings
[1785-1798] Burns-Cowper
[1798-1806] Wordsworth
[1806-1837] Byron, Martin's Act

Victorian Age
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Anti-Cruelty, Anti-Vivisection Laws
[1837-1876] Early Victorian Age
[1876-1901] Late Victorian Age

Early 20th Century
Articles-Letters-Early 20th
Continuing Animal Protection Law
[1901-1914] Edwardian Age
[1914-1945] Modern Period