If a bad child should martyrise a toad, it is not the toad which would interest me: poor creature of diffused consciousness, ignorant even of its own pain, such a tiny pain, too, in comparison with the immense pains which the beings of this great universe are suffering at this moment!
"The Pros and Cons of Vivisection"
Charles Richet Commentator: W. D. Halliburton
So we would martyrise ourselves to no purpose.
"The Mystery of a Turkish Bath"
E.M. Gollan (AKA Rita)