The Ignorance of the Scientific 



slain to distant wounded soldiers, there by 

 " reconstruction " to " complete the frame." 



Another scientific professor in America of 

 the name of Crile, once published an account 

 of the most fantastic and disgusting mutila- 

 tions of one hundred and forty-eight living 

 dogs, and when he had finished he gave to 

 the world the conclusion of the whole matter 

 which he professed to have been investi- 

 gating in the following prodigious apothegm : 

 u The result of action is reaction; of rest, 



restoration." 



So all he added to human knowledge was 

 a twopenny platitude which he seems, poor 

 man, to have regarded as a profundity. It 

 only remained for his fellow-men of Science 

 to take him at his own valuation and to give 

 him a prize for his rubbish : which indeed 

 they did ! 



Perhaps the last note of absurdity is 

 reached when the new demigods call on us 

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