The Idolatry of Science 



has not been obliterated by Science would 

 know that if the current always flowed out 

 of the Black Sea that sea would be a fresh 

 water lake, which it is not. Like Charles Lamb, 

 one wants to take a candle and look at the head 

 of the gentleman who wrote that nonsense. 



The War was seized upon by Mr Stephen 

 Paget as an opportunity for a display of the 

 invincible obtuseness of the scientific mind. 

 He published a pamphlet on the inoculation 

 for typhoid fever, 350,000 copies of which, 

 he says, have been distributed. 



It is full of statements backed by no 

 authority, which Mr Paget repeats from 

 " hearsay," such as this : 



u The results (of inoculation) proved 

 that typhoid fever, in the South African 

 war, was twice as common in the non- 

 protected as in the protected." 



Mr McCormick, who joyfully pinked Mr 



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