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HUMANITARY MOVEMENTS.
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Other Humanitary Movements.
The splendid modern system of cooperation for effecting a number
of Social reforms (often important in themselves even if not, as a rule,
comparable with those treated above) is also in Sweden amply
represented. A number of these associations are dealt with in this work
under the divisions specially devoted to their respective fields of labour.
Some few of the rest may here be the subject of a brief notice.
Of the International Federation, working for the abolition of legally
controlled prostitution, there is also a branch in Sweden.
The Ambulance Societies labour to diffuse knowledge of the best means of
help in cases of sudden accident, as well as of rendering such assistance; and
with the same object, especially with reference to accidents through drowning,
the Swedish Life Saving Society has been lately established.
The Swedish Cremation Society has displayed an energetic activity, and
crematories are now erected both in Stockholm and Gothenburg.
The Protection of Animals has gained most numerous and zealous advocates,
especially among women, and a large number of societies are at work with the
object of introducing a better method of slaughter, of educating school children
to be kind to animals, etc. The Scandinavian nations in general occupy, as is
well known, a high standard with regard to the humane treatment of animals,
and this is perhaps especially true of the Swedes with their often bespoken warm
love of nature, which also manifests itself as a lively interest in the creatures
of the animal kingdom.
Akin to the above-mentioned efforts is the work for limiting and
regulating (or abolishing) vivisection, which has its center in the Scandinavian Union
for opposing the scientific torture of animals.
The work for securing a permanent Universal Peace, or the abolition of
war and the superseding of it by international tribunals of arbitration, has not
gained any great extension in Sweden; still, from a theoretical point of view,
G. BjOrklond’s writings have attracted attention even abroad. Quite recently, too,
an epoch-making contribution on this field has been furnished by a Swede, the
celebrated inventor of dynamite, Alfred Nobel, who out of his giant legacy for
the furtherance of culture (more than 30 million kronor) has appropriated a fifth
for advancing the prospects of peace. Like the remaining items of his legacy,
the Peace Fund is administered by a Board composed of Swedes, and having its
residence in Stockholm, but the determination as to the employment of this part
of the interests is entrusted by the testator to the Norwegian Parliament. The
distribution of this sum took place for the first time in 1901, and will
henceforward be made annually. For further details see below under the heading the
Nobel Institution
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