Sentimentalists and Faddists 



U A11 with one voice about the space of 

 two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the 

 Ephesians." Iterated assertion sufficed with 

 the public in the days of St Paul, and, 

 the evolution of Science notwithstanding, 

 iterated assertion suffices with the public of 

 to-day. 



So it has come about at last that the 

 vociferous advocates of Science, perceiving 

 in their hearts that sentiment and feeling 

 will never bow the knee to their idolon, 

 have for half a century cried out with one 

 voice that sentiment is contemptible and 

 feeling to be despised. But, fortunately for 

 mankind, there always persists a remnant 

 that looks deeper than the halfpenny Press, 

 and higher than the raucous crowd, and that 

 remnant ultimately prevails. 



Diana of the Ephesians has returned to 

 dust, and all the clamour of a hundred news- 

 papers and a thousand books will not save 

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