DISCOVERY 



121 



He considers that the title of " Professor," except 

 when assumed by conjurers, jugglers, and tumblers, 

 stamps a man as narrow, prejudicial, inaccurate, 

 i^-norant, and dangerous. 



It is a little difi&cult at times to know whether Mr. 

 Coleridge is serious or not. One would almost imagine 

 from the way he writes that he disapproves of in- 

 oculation and of vivisection. We like especially his 

 amusing mock picture of typhoid germs. It is so good 

 that we are sorr\' that he has not prepared more 

 illustrations for us. Ma\- we help him here ? On 

 p. 64 the author says, " Sir Joseph Lister was raised 

 to the peerage in a halo of antiseptic spray." Wliat 

 a grand opportunity that is for the nimble pencil of 

 Mr. Heath Robinson ! Again, on p. 56 we are told 

 that the scientist 



will not argue or listen to argument ; he brings for- 

 ward no reasonable evidence, and will not attend to 

 reasonable evidence brought before him by others. 

 He is a man of science, he peddles in a laboraton,-, he 

 asserts, and when he speaks let no dog bark ! " 



An illustration of this passage by Mr. Max Beer- 

 bohm would absolutely make the second edition. The 

 scientist on the left of the picture carefully brushing 

 aside e^•er3' argument but his own, and busily ped- 

 dling ; on the right six dogs straining at the leash, 

 and being just restrained from barking by the warn- 

 ing finger of a boy. \Miat a chance for the artist ! 

 It is too good to miss. 



It is a pity that Mr. Coleridge allows his views to 

 run away with him at times. With many English- 

 men a specialist training leads to what seems to us a 

 narrow view. One man sees the cause of war and 

 misery in " the lawyers," another in " the politicians," 

 a third in " the clericals," a fourth in " the inter- 

 national Jew financier." Mr. Coleridge thinks it is 

 science. But these are all bogey-men. With his 

 main point that the teaching of science without an 

 accompanying training in other subjects, in character, 

 and above all in religion, is dangerous, we agree. 

 But what sensible man or woman would deny this ? 

 Yet humour, whether conscious or unconscious, is so 

 rare these days that we welcome it wherever we see it. 



A. S. Russell. 



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