Scientific Sophisms. 155 



science will one day be regarded as evidence of the low 

 state of intelligence in the nineteenth century, just as we 

 amuse ourselves with the phraseology about nature's 

 abhorrence of a vacuum, wherewith Torricelli's compatriots 

 were satisfied to explain the rise of water in a pump.' " l 



1 Dr. Elaia: Contemporary Review t October, 1876 : p. 

 733. 



