St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, March 14, 1909

This was basically doctor Charles Loomis Dana’s rebuttal to anyone opposed to abuse, vivisection, or other experimentation on animals - if you feel sympathy for animals you’re “dippy”! 

Feel bad when you see a badly treated dray horse being whipped on the street? You’re dippy! A skin and bones three legged stray dog makes you sad? Dippy! Sick cat makes your heart ache? Definitely dippy! He claimed that if you let these things affect you then the next thing you knew you’d be “weeping bitter tears over a wilted flower which has been snatched from it’s parent bush” and unable to feel compassion for fellow humans.