Word: painlessness
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Professor Charles Franklin Dunbar died at his home on Highland street late Monday night at the age of sixty-eight years. His death was quiet and painless. For some years he has been in feeble health, but no solicitude was felt regarding his condition until within the past fortnight. He had a son in the class of '78 and two in the class...
...should animals so much duller be spared? We use animals for all other purposes, for food and clothing, and even for enjoyment and sport. The physiologist is certainly not so cruel as the sportsman. He takes every precaution to kill his victim with the least pain. Indeed, so painless are his methods that the death of an animal so killed is much pleasanter than that of the animal exposed to the vicissitudes of nature. In the natural state the weak are exposed to the attacks of the strong, and often are subjected to torment and mutilation before being...