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further infer, therefore, that the disciphne of the army- 

 is very severe, and perhaps this may throw some Hght 

 upon the constant reappearance of the figure 0-5 in 

 relation to the size of some of its artillery equipment. 

 We believe further, from certain information which the 

 dispatches of the " Field-marshal " reveal,* that the 

 army has also its ambulance corps, consisting of "higher 

 consultants " and " general practitioners." We have 

 not the slightest doubt that such a militant organisation 

 has urgent need for an ambulance branch, and that 

 its duties must be incessant. And, when we review 

 the many battles with the gods in which it has been 

 engaged, and we recall their disastrous results, we find 

 an explanation of the anomaly, that whereas other 

 armies are content with " general practitioners," the 

 biometrical one finds it necessary to retain " higher 

 consultants." 



In some respects it is a very fine army, and it is 

 certainly an imposing one upon parade. It is led, 

 officered, and manned by men of transcendent intellect, 

 of \\'hom any country may be provid. It is an army 

 which in some domains may have achieved some eminent 

 victories for truth ; but in other domains we are afraid 

 our judgement compels us to say it has but obscured 

 the topography and geography of the country of its 

 invasion by the smoke of battle, produced by the burning 

 of its " correlation " gunpowder, and that it has failed 

 to capture the Temple of Truth by the errors of its 

 strategy and the ineffectiveness of some of its weapons 

 of attack. 



Opposed to the Biometrical army is the Mendelian. 

 More recent in origin, less martial in organisation, but 

 very vigorous, the Mendelian army has already turned 

 the flanks and pierced the centre of the older one opposed 

 to it. For signs of surrender on one wing, and of 

 retreat, very skiKuUy covered, on the other, are visible 

 in the biometrical ranks. The broken centre, encouraged 

 by the boldness and coolness of its eminent Field-marshal 

 — who hke the kings of old per-sonally fights on the 

 battle-field — is making a rally on the high grounds to 

 the rear. These hills are marked on the Mendelian 



* " Biometrika," Vol. VI., p. 348. 



