1885., 
Correspondence. 
5i 
6th. Even a congenitally blind person has a perfect inner 
conception of Light and Colour, provided his optic nerves be 
sound. 
7th. This fact is admitted by all thinkers on the Continent , and 
by a few thorough scientists in England [in our day the model 
Philistia] . 
8th. It is a fact of which it has always appeared to me meta- 
physicians [abstract thinkers] might have made much. 
So far Mr. Cave Thomas. For very many years past I have 
done my best and worst to fulfil his last cogent scientific postu- 
late, which lands us not in Theology or Theism, but in pure 
The-anthropism. It realises in Humanism the idea compre- 
hended in Theism. It effectually checkmates all divine worship 
and ritual by showing the impossibility of transcending Man- 
hood, and ultimately SeZ/hood. All religions, natural or revealed, 
thus disappear, their successor being Hygiene, defined by Dr. 
Parkes as “ supreme culture [physical] of mind and body.” 
Robert Lewins, M.D. 
Army and Navy Club, December 14, 1884. 
“ARSENICAL DOMESTIC POISONING.” 
My attention has been called to a leading article entitled 
“Arsenical Domestic Poisoning,” which appeared in the “ Medical 
Press” of November 12th. 
In this article the writer refers to mine “ On the Properties 
and Manufacture of Emerald Green,” which appeared in the 
“Journal of Science ” for August. The writer states I must 
have been sadly unobservant of what has been going on in the 
medical world as to the injurious effeCts of arsenical pigments 
in domestic fabrics. The only arsenical pigment I treated upon 
in my article was Emerald Green, and I stated, from personal 
knowledge, that the employed in an Emerald Green faCtory I 
was connected with for some time did not suffer from arsenical 
poisoning: it therefore appeare i to me a correCt conclusion that, 
if persons who inhabit rooms the wall-paper of which is stained 
with Emerald Green suffer from arsenical poisoning, the effeCts 
of homoeopathic doses of this substance are different from its 
effeCt in large doses. 
In the reported medical cases that have come under my 
notice, in not one single case has the medical man eliminated 
all sources of error before arriving at the conclusion that his 
patient was suffering from arsenical poisoning. No inspection 
as to the discolouration of the wall-paper, no chemical examina- 
tion of the air in the rooms, to ascertain whether it contained 
