The Idolatry of Science 



Mr Rockfeller has wasted a quantity of 

 his impossible wealth in endowing the 

 scientific who have proceeded with por- 

 tentous gravity to exchange the legs of living 

 dogs and to graft bits of one animal on to 

 another. They might as well, while they 

 were about it, have grafted asses' ears on to 

 the heads of their fellow-physiologists as a 

 last demonstration of the ignorance of the 

 scientific, for before they can proceed to 

 graft a new leg on to a man who wants one 

 they must find a store of live human legs to 

 draw upon, and only a man of Science would 

 be ignorant of the permanent impossibility 

 of finding anywhere in the universe a store 

 of live human legs detached from human 

 bodies. 



In 1913 a vivisector of the name of 

 Voronoff visited this country, and read a 

 paper before the Medical Congress. The 

 Daily Express introduced the gentleman to 



