The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 37

;

whose midst, the

tainty at least with conjecture, the circle in

whom, and

author by

originated?

So

studies, that

I

the time in which, a

do

little

at the

book of Scripture

abandonment of these

would no sooner sanction an

these vivisectorial excesses

ban upon

official

and physiological

indelicacies with

Corpus Scriptures than with the corpus humamun.

the

in the circle of the

if,

aim

I

667

Day.

Biblical Criticism of the Present

1904.]

cesses

medical sciences, these vivisectorial ex-

and physiological violations of common chastity are not by

prohibited

law, has

not

the nobler-mnded medicus the

right, in virtue of the principle itself of his science,

the

name

of the

home

has the ful

But

human

for

object,

its

and the no

cruelties,

cent and unlawful?

man

pearing

character that belongs to

Or,

—

it,

—

i.

e.

because

to protest against these

in it

shame-

less

shameful indelicacies, as inde-

is

not true that in his bodily ap-

it

ceases to be worthy of the honor of furnishing

an object for a separate science, when, treating the animal cruelly

and himself having become

to being

little

when

equal rights,

bestial,

he degrades himself

And

better than a corpus vile? it

have we no

concerns the Corpus Scripturce, to enter

our complaints on the ground of the absence of feeling vivisectors

physiologists

;

not in spite, but in the name, of our science

both because, by their actions, the principle is

violated,

in the

and the offensive profanities of the Scripture-

and because a patchwork

quilt

itself

of theology

such as they make

the Scripture to be does no longer reward the trouble of scientific investigation. I

welcome the

also, in the

brains, the critical

so that

it

ing that

finest

domain of

perception by the senses

criticism.

{aiaO-qaisi).,

But even as our nerves and

organ also can suffer from hvpenesthesis,

cannot do other than observe incorrectly; thus reach-

inharmonious condition which makes every noise

seem louder, every touch more

startling,

and every uneven-

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