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A malady, ladies and gentlemen, has broken
out in science. Science is today in splendid
vigor, having thrown off its earlier infirmity
of dogmatism, and being in most respects in
superlative trim. This new disease is in its very
first stage and is confined almost wholly
entirely exclusively to certain members that always have
been weakly. The symptoms are local. The
disorder, however, in its nature, not local,
but constitutional; and there is distinct danger
of its appearing in parts that are now untouched.
There is a certain craze in the universities; by
which I mean that certain ideas have become
rife in the universities by the force of vogue,
and not by, the force of reasoning, whether good
or bad. Such a phenomenon may be
likened to fever. Science has, at different
times, passed through several such ailments,
some of them pretty serious. They ran their