The Idolatry of Science 



business of the Crown Court at Assizes has 

 proved to my understanding that to close 

 them would be to empty the prisons of the 

 country, I am called a faddist. 



If I want to stop betting on horse-racing 

 because that same experience of mine at 

 Assizes makes me aware of the sinister 

 and direct connexion between betting and 

 embezzlement, I am called a faddist. 



If I want to make it as illegal for a white 

 handed man of Science to torture a dog as it 

 is for a costermonger to torture his donkey, I 

 am called a faddist, and without doubt a 

 confirmed, determined, and unrepentant faddist 

 I wish to be. For let me tell the man of 

 Science who in fact and in deed is a faddist. 



He is the man who proposes the reform 

 of a law, or the abolition of a habit, which 

 the prejudiced and the dull cannot defend 

 with reason or justify in ethics. He is the 

 man who, seeing visions, fights alone against 



