CHAPTER VIII 

 PROFESSORS OF "SCIENCE" 



"The jejune professor of the sciences is not sent us as 

 a pattern to imitate but as a warning to deter." . 



A great section of the unthinking and care- 

 less public have for long formed the habit of 

 accepting without question anything emanat- 

 ing from the lips of a professor, whereas the 

 general rule may safely be adopted, that a 

 professor of Science is a man of prejudice, 

 either indifferent to, or ignorant of, the laws 

 of evidence, that he is a man who will assert 

 to be a law of Nature what is really no more 

 than a hypothesis, that he is a man with a 

 mind too narrow to apprehend the noble 

 emotions that in truth govern the actions of 

 mankind, that he is a man who would "peep 

 and botanize upon his mother's grave." 

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