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of these certainties is that if the established facts and princi- 

 ples of modern science are ever overthrown it will be by the 

 trained scientist with microscope, telescope and spectroscope, 

 not by the ignoramus with a divining-rod. Russia, the typical 

 military power, was defeated, not by the undisciplined hordes 

 of Asia, but by Japan, with all the enginery of militarism, 

 together with trained and disciplined men behind the guns. 

 In like manner, scientific tenets can be disproved only by the 

 rigid laboratory methods of present-day science. 



