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Excerpt from In Memoriam, the Late Earl of Shaftesbury, K. G: First President of the Victoria Street Society for the Protection of Animals From Vivisection
Lord shaftesbury made his first great Speech for our Cause. It was a long address, occupying a pamphlet of 22 pages, and in it he displayed an exhaustive study of the then recently issued Minutes of Evidence of the Royal Commission, and also of the arguments employed by the advocates of vivisection. He told the Government that the feeling of the country was in favour of total abolition; but that he was prepared to accept the Bill which only imposed restriction. Lord shaftesbury proceeded to give in brief but very telling language descriptions of the hideous experiments of brachet and others, and quoted largely from the Blue-book. It was in this great speech that Lord shaftesbury introduced the phrase of Chamber Sport, which illustrates SO well the anti thesis between the vivisections of the physiological laboratory and the injuries inflicted on animals in the open fields by the hunter and fowler. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
