Scientific Cock-a-doodle 



Paget in The Nation, told him that the 

 Japanese went through their tremendous cam- 

 paign without inoculation, whereupon Mr 

 Paget exclaimed in reply : 



" I want his authority ; and, of course, 

 it must be real authority, not hearsay." 



Prodigious ! Mr Paget, the man of Science, 

 may make assertions based on gossip, tittle- 

 tattle, fancy, invention, prejudice, fanaticism, 

 or nothing, and the lay world is not to hint 

 a doubt, or hesitate belief. 



But when Mr McCormick makes a state- 

 ment that removes the middle stump of Mr 

 Paget's argument, the latter peremptorily 

 calls for u authority," and will have no 

 u hearsay." 



Mr McCormick responded at once thus: 



"My authority is the official report on 

 the sanitary aspects of the Russo-Japanese 

 war, by Lieut. -Colonel W. G. Macpherson, 

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