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Edward A. Freeman

1823-1892

1884-Feb-16 | Edward A. Freeman, letter to the editor, "Scientific Freedom," Spectator [London:1828-] 57 (1884 Feb 16): 215-216. [Online Edition: Animal Rights History, 2003]

The physiologist cannot say, as the historian and the geologist can say, that the means by which he gains his knowledge hurts neither man nor beast…In the pursuit of the other studies, there is no inherent danger of moral evil; in the pursuit of physiology, there is.

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