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either false or true, of the particular knowledge now 

 commonly classified as ^'science", has stated the case 

 in graphic form ("The U&es of Diversity," 1920), the 

 asterisks, in the quotation, standing for further em- 

 bellishments : 



"There is a certain kind of modem book which * * * 

 ought to be blown to pieces with the dynamite of some 

 great satirist like Swift or Dickens * * *, The kind of 

 book I mean is the pseudo-scientific book. And b}^ this 

 I do not mean that the man who writes it is a conscious 

 quack or that he knows nothing; I mean that he proves 

 nothing; he simply gives you all his cocksure * * * opin- 

 ions and calls it science. Books are coming out with so- 

 called scientific conclusions — books in which there is 

 actually no scientific argument at all. * * * I should like 

 some evidence." 



