Why?
There was positively no answer to this.
Suppose he said, Because a dog is an animal?
Could he, as a physiologist, deny that a man is an animal too?
Suppose he said, Because a dog is the inferior creature in intellect?
The obvious answer to this would be, But the lower order of savage, or the lower order of lunatic, compared with the dog, is the inferior creature in intellect; and, in these cases, the dog has, on your own showing, the better right to protection of the two.
Suppose he said, Because a man is a creature with a soul, and a dog is a creature without a soul?
This would be simply inviting another unanswerable question: How do you know?
Honestly accepting the dilemma which thus presented itself, the conclusion that followed seemed to be beyond dispute.
If the Law, in the matter of Vivisection, asserts the principle of interference, the Law has barred its right to place arbitrary limits on its own action.

If it protects any living creatures, it is bound, in reason and in justice, to protect all.
"Well," said Lemuel, "am I to have an answer ?" "I'm not a lawyer." With this convenient reply, Benjulia opened Mr.Morphew's letter, and read the forbidden part of it which began on the second page.

There he found the very questions with which his brother had puzzled him--followed by the conclusion at which he had himself arrived! "You interpreted the language of your dog just now," he said quietly to Lemuel; "and I naturally supposed your brain might be softening.

Such as it is, I perceive that your memory is in working order.

Accept my excuses for feeling your pulse.