The Enemy of Mankind 



certainly the Romans washed their bodies 

 assiduously without any directions from 

 Science; and in later times Bacon has 

 remarked; "cleanliness of body was ever 

 deemed to proceed from a due reverence to 

 God," nor need we any urgings of Science 

 to do all we can to render our dwellings 

 fragrant ; we naturally prefer them so ; and 

 I know of nothing necessary beyond a nose 

 to make us purify our streets. 



What Science has in fact done in these 

 matters is to make it almost impossible over 

 vast tracts of densely populated country, for 

 the people either to keep their bodies 

 clean, their houses fragrant, or their streets 

 sweet. 



In an evil hour James Watt and George 

 Stephenson between them gave railways and 

 factories to mankind and the horrible results 

 are seen, in the ever-increasing vast agglomera- 

 tions of miserable men and women in hideous 

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