The Idolatry of Science 



wildered world that washing the skin 

 removes a protective crust " which is all 

 round our bodies like the tiles of a house," 1 

 and that he objects to Turkish Baths because 

 they "take away one's horny protection." 1 



"The ordinary man" has also formed his 

 own conclusion that overcrowding and stuffy 

 unventilated rooms are injurious to mankind, 

 but this belief in the value of fresh air 

 appears to be quite unscientific, for Sir 

 Almroth Wright declares it to be 



"a dreadful superstition. The whole 

 of the doctrine of fresh air required to be 

 revised." l 



Moreover, this ornament of Science ex- 

 tends his contempt to include not only u the 

 ordinary man," but the ordinary doctor, for 

 he has declared that 



"he had been in consultation with 



1 Times, March 18, 1911. 



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