I am thankful to say that Dr.Anna Kingsford answered my articles, and I readily inserted her replies in the paper in which mine had appeared--our _National Reformer_--and she touched that question of the moral sense to which my nature at once responded.
Ultimately, I looked carefully into the subject, found that vivisection abroad was very different from vivisection in England, saw that it was in very truth the fiendishly cruel thing that its opponents alleged, and destroyed my partial defence of even its less brutal form.
1882 saw no cessation of the struggles in which Mr.Bradlaugh and those who stood by him were involved.

On February 7th he was heard for the third time at the Bar of the House of Commons, and closed his speech with an offer that, accepted, would have closed the contest.

"I am ready to stand aside, say for four or five weeks, without coming to that table, if the House within that time, or within such time as its great needs might demand, would discuss whether an Affirmation Bill should pass or not.

I want to obey the law, and I tell you how I might meet the House still further, if the House will pardon me for seeming to advise it.Hon.members have said that would be a Bradlaugh Relief Bill.

Bradlaugh is more proud than you are.