On animal cruelty Pt 5:
"Many people will perhaps not approve of laboratory cruelty in general, but they think that medical experiments are alright, particularly if they can be performed painlessly under certain regulated conditions, since they save+
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"Many people will perhaps not approve of laboratory cruelty in general, but they think that medical experiments are alright, particularly if they can be performed painlessly under certain regulated conditions, since they save+
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human and sometimes even animal life.
It is claimed that these experiments have increased our anatomical and toxicological knowledge, and they have helped us in diagnosing cardiac diseases, in improving the method of blood transfusion, and in developing anaesthetic practices.
It is claimed that these experiments have increased our anatomical and toxicological knowledge, and they have helped us in diagnosing cardiac diseases, in improving the method of blood transfusion, and in developing anaesthetic practices.
Such progress is praiseworthy and some claims need not be disputed. An institution so well endowed and engaging the devoted labour of thousand of talented men and women cannot be without some good to its credit. But the whole thing raises larger questions.
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Vivisection may yield certain benefits, but sometimes these gains mislead and set man in an altogether wrong direction. Animals have yielded more information about themselves and about man himself to those who have gone to them in simple friendliness.
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A man who goes to them with a knife, a syringe of poison or chloroform is probably not the one who gets the most out of them.
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In fact, such methods inhibit deeper faculties of knowledge. Some of the greatest discoveries, even in the medical field, have been made by methods other than that of the knife.
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Take, for example, pulse-reading which is based on the knowledge of the deeper working of the body as a system; or take acupuncture based on the knowledge of the life-currents in the body, their meridian points in the body, or their subtle-points or marma-sthana.
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No amount of vivisection could give this knowledge of the anatomy of the inner body. Nor could this knowledge come from what in scientific jargon is known as the method of induction and deduction.
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This knowledge comes from a more essential abstraction, a more concentrated attention and receptivity called samyama in Patanjala Yoga; it comes from a deepened intuition and a deepened capacity for sympathy and empathy.
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Even in the physical field, the greatest scientists are not laboratory men. Albert Einstein was not a laboratory man, much less a man with a knife.
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Ref:
Hinduism and Monotheistic Religions
Pg 15
Hinduism and Monotheistic Religions
Pg 15
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