Author: win r

""True science has no belief", says Dr. Fenwick, in Bulwer-Lytton's Strange Story' "true science knows but three states of mind: denial, conviction, and the vast interval between the two, which is not belief, but the suspension of judgment." Such, perhaps, was true science in Dr. Fenwick's days. But the true science of our modern times [...]

"But Dr. Elam thinks otherwise. On page 194 of his book, A Physician's Problems, he says that the cause of the rapid spread of certain epidemics of disease which he is noticing "remains a mystery"; but as regards the incendiarism he remarks that "in all this we find nothing mysterious", though the epidemic is strongly [...]

"Plato acknowledges man to be the toy of the element of necessity, which he enters upon in appearing in this world of matter; he is influenced by external causes, and these causes are daimonia, like that of Socrates. Happy is the man physically pure, for if his external soul (body) is pure, it will strengthen [...]

"We know", says Dr. Elam, "that certain pathological conditions have a tendency to become epidemic, influenced by causes not yet investigated....We see how strong is the tendency of opinion  once promulgated to run into an epidemic form - no opinion, no delusion, is too absurd to assume this collective character. We observe, also, how remarkably [...]