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Science, ladies and gentlemen has contracted a disease.
Science is today in splendid vigor.
To a superficial observer science seems to be in perfect health.
The disease that has attacked it is only in its first stage is doing no great harm except in certain special parts where science has been strong.
If symptoms are merely local.
In it is nature, however, it is pretty well rid of the complaint from which it formerly suffered more or less, dogmatism and in some other respects does betterthan it ever did.
The disease is constituted is constitutional not local; and there is a distinct danger that, care to how healthy maybe attacked.
Now every principle possessed vitality, until it is notoriously refuted;
and even after they have recieved their death-blows; we all knowhow one life may linger in principles well formulated.

The principle in this case is a false notion of reasoning due to a confusion of thought;