It is up to the human species to take the moral stance and create a movement that advances those moral rights. ... In the animal kingdom the inherent value of a good breeding mate is critical to the survival of species and yet we judge from the outside looking inwards. ... Reagan's view of total abolition of the use of animals in science is a stance that is more radical and on face value harder to achieve. ...
For it deals not in the least, as to unapproachability, with things exalted or refined; it only confers on its sufficiently vulgar elements of exhibition a final unsurpassable form " (Norton Critical Edition, 414). ... The novel neither praises nor condemns the actions of the selfish, flighty, confused protagonist, but instead presents them with an ambiguous stance. ...