Every system of law is a system of education, and, in extending legal sanction to the scientific torture of animals, the State educates the nation in a false view of the relations of man to the lower creatures, encourages selfishness and cruelty and the disregard of the rights of the weak by the strong.

Ch. XV: Four Reasons for Total Prohibition of Vivisection, pp. 223-224 - The Modern Rack (1889)