Professors of " Science r ' 



and passed a ridiculous Act, which sensible 

 judges with any regard for the dignity of 

 our procedure have ignored. No evidence 

 of a single case of any injury having ever 

 reached anybody in the world from kissing 

 the Bible in court has ever been produced, 

 and if it could be produced these busybodies 

 would no doubt have proceeded from strength 

 to strength and have forbidden Christians to 

 partake of the Sacrament from a common 

 chalice. 



With passionate prejudice the efficacy of 

 vaccination to prevent smallpox is proclaimed, 

 and the freedom of the subject in the matter 

 denounced, and yet what are the records ot 

 this disease? The disease has practically 

 disappeared from among us contempor- 

 aneously with a vast increase of unvaccinated 

 persons. Moreover, in 1915 eleven persons 

 were killed by being vaccinated, while only 

 thirteen died of the disease. These are 

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