But even if it could be shown that M. Pasteur's
patients have been occasionally saved by his inoculations, the ex- pense of deliberate cruelty at which they have been saved is something awful. A French journal, L'Illustration, thus described the laboratory as it was in 1884 Another part of the basement is occupied by the kennel. The inoculated dogs are shut in circular iron cages, provided with a solid network. M. Pasteur has arranged the doors so as to secure the safety of the attendants who bring the food. It is one of these dogs, in the paroxysm of rabies, which M. Pasteur showed us,. observing, He will die to-morrow.' The animal looked at him,. its body gathered up, the tail dropped, the mouth foaming,. ready to bite. M. Pasteur having kicked the wires of the cage, the animal dashed at him. It bit the bars, which became red with the bloody saliva. Then with its jaws bleeding, it turned tearing the straw of its litter, back into its kennel which if had gnawed the preceding night. From time to time it uttered a piercing and plaintive cry." Since then, innumerable dogs have been confined and sacrificed in these cages. The
question for Englishmen is, whether the inoculation of the human mind with cruel indifference to animal torture, is not an evil infinitely greater than even the death of some of us from hydrophobia itself.
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