The Idolatry of Science 



ous toxins? This seems to an unscientific 

 person the most likely conjecture, because 

 the next sentence continues thus : 



" No doubt the toxin becomes incorpor- 

 ated with the nerve centres," 



and thus the plural becomes suddenly and 

 precipitately singular without any explanation 

 or apology. Of course, when a man is mak- 

 ing bald assertions based on nothing but his 

 own audacity, it does not much matter 

 whether he projects upon us twenty toxins 

 or one. He is a man of Science, and there- 

 fore his business is to make assertions with- 

 out proof or evidence, and the duty of the 

 rest of us is to fall back before him with 

 amazement and admiration, and accept his 

 statements with humility and abasement ! 



These prophets of the new faith assay to 

 fill us with awe and reverence by concealing 

 in sesquipedalian nomenclature some quite 

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