The Idolatry of Science 



Report for 1912 the following pregnant 

 remark : 



"It is often impossible to determine 

 from the certificate whether a death which 

 occurred under an anaesthetic should be 

 regarded as in any way due to its 

 administration and not rather perhaps to 

 the severity of the operation or other 

 cause apart from the anaesthetic." 



The public are entitled to know the truth, 

 and the truth as to deaths under operations 

 is at present withheld, and something that 

 to the unscientific is indistinguishable from 

 mendacity is sent to the Registrar-General. 



Not long ago these ignorant men of 

 Science proclaimed in the market-place that 

 there lurked a subtle and terrible danger in 

 the custom of our courts that directed the 

 witness to kiss the Bible when he was sworn, 

 and a terrified legislature bowed before them 



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