13 FEBRUARY 1875, Page 3

Mr. Lewis Carroll says well, in a remarkable letter to

yesterday's Pall Mall Gazette, that the real root of the growiug favour shown to Vivisection is the rapid spread of the assumption that the pro- motion of secular knowledge is an end justifying all means, how- ever questionable or intrinsically undesirable. We have always held, on the contrary, that there are ends higher than secular knowledge, ends so much more sacred as even to forbid us a path that unquestionably leads to knowledge. And it is on this prin- ciple alone, as we believe, that a successful resistance to vivisection can be securely rested.