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drawn under the microscope, these bodies killed,* to the great 
advantage of the tvhole organisation, by the application of 
quinine. 
Is it not something like throwing dust in the eyes of the 
reader to lead him to infer that this is how cells live for the 
sake of the whole organisation ? 
Place before me a Stilton cheese, and tell me that these quasi- 
independent organisms are created for the sake of the cheese, 
and are really part of the cheese, since the cheese would not 
be worthy of its name without them, and I will listen, for 
there would be vraisemblance at least in your assertion ; if not 
true, it were at least amusing ; but do not fatigue me with the 
real no-meaning which, as Pope tells us, “ puzzles more than 
wit.” 
From BACON’S WOBKS, vol. vii., 272, ed. 1803. 
“ Nam mens humana (corpore obducta et obfuscata) tantum abest ut 
speculo piano aequali et claro similis sit (quod rerum radios sincere excipiat 
et reflectat) ut potius sit instar speculi alicujus incantati, pleni super- 
stitionibus et spectris. Imponuntur autem intellectui idola, aut per 
naturam ipsam generis huniani generalem, aut per naturam cujusque 
individualem , aut per verba , sive naturam communicativam. Primum genus, 
idola tribus ; secundum, idola specus ; tertium, idola fori , vocare con- 
suevimus. Est et quartum genus, quod idola theatri appellamus, atque 
superinductum est a pravis theoriis , sive philosophiis &c., &c. 
The italics are mine. — J. E. H. 
A discussion of a general character took place upon the paper, in which 
the Chairman (Mr. H. Cadman Jones), Mr. R. C. Shettle, M.D., the Rev. 
W. B. Galloway, and Mr. W. Griffith took part. 
# Diefarblosen Blutkorpuchen liegen abgestorben dicht an der Aussenvnnd 
der Vene. 
