CHAPTER VI 



SCIENTIFIC COCK-A-DOODLE 



" My Lords, we are vertebrate animals, we are 

 mammalia. My learned friend's manner would be 

 intolerable in Almighty God to a black beetle." 



Maule. 



THE war has constantly brought into pro- 

 minence the obfuscation of the scientific. 



One learned pundit contributed this gem 

 about the Dardanelles to the Sunday papers 

 on the 2ist of March 1916. 



" Owing to the fact that the waters of 

 the Mediterranean evaporate far more 

 rapidly than they can be replaced by the 

 inflow from the Nile, Rhone, etc., there is 

 always a current westward in the Dar- 

 danelles." 



Of course, anyone whose common sense 

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