“The victory of vivisection marks a great advance in the triumph of ruthless, non-moral utilitarianism over the old world of ethical law; a triumph in which we, as well as animals, are already the victims, and of which Dachau and Hiroshima mark the more recent achievements.”

— Clive Staples Lewis, book God in the Dock

"Vivisection" (1947), p. 228
God in the Dock (1970)

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Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963

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