 There the a priori argument for Vivisection is put in the familiar illustration that ' it would be more reasonable to hope to make out the machinery of a watch by looking at it, than to hope to understand the mechanism of a living animal by mere contemplation.  The Coward Science: Our Answer to Prof. Owen - Page 163by Charles Adams - 1882 - 285 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Annie Besant - Vivisection - 1882 - 126 pages
...exception of Sir James Paget) they nil boldly claimed Harvey's alleged discovery as of the chiefest There the a priori argument for vivisection is put...animal by mere contemplation." Unfortunately there is a fault in the analogy, and it may be far more truly put in the converse, that it would be wholly impossible... | |
 | Sir William Withey Gull - 1896 - 272 pages
...progress of physiological knowledge to passive observation, and to give up experiments altogether. But it would be more reasonable to hope to make out the...mechanism of a living animal by mere contemplation. The movements and the value of the levers in the limbs and joints might no doubt be largely made out... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1882 - 1114 pages
...passive observation, and to give up experiments altogether. But it would be more reasonable to hope i to make out the machinery of a watch by looking at it, than to hope 1 to understand the mechanism of a living animal by mere contemplation. The movements and the value... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1882 - 1036 pages
...progress of physiological knowledge to passive observation, and to give up experiments altogether. But it would be more reasonable to hope to make out the...mechanism of a living animal by mere contemplation. The movements and the value of the levers in the limbs and joints might no doubt be largely made out... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1882 - 1038 pages
...passive observation, and to give up lx Periments altogether. But it would be more reasonable to hope t° make out the machinery of a watch by looking at it, than to hope inderstand the mechanism of a living animal by mere contemplation. The movements and the value of the... | |
 | Susan Hamilton - Animal experimentation - 2004 - 328 pages
...progress of physiological knowledge to passive observation, and to give up experiments altogether. But it would be more reasonable to hope to make out the...mechanism of a living animal by mere contemplation. The movements and the value of the levers in the limbs and joints might no doubt be largely made out... | |
 | United States - 1896 - 1032 pages
...March 9. There the a priori argument for the vivisection is put in the familiar illustration tbat " it would be more reasonable to hope to make out the...animal by mere contemplation." Unfortunately there is a fault in the analogy, and it may be far more truly put in the converse, that it would be wholly impossible... | |
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