THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
Fans and Fallacies. “We live in a time of incredulity.” said a lecturer recently, commenting on the reception which had been accorded to a discovery in physics. But do we? The dictum may be true in some particular respects, but in the main it is doubtful if there were even a more credulous age than ours. Although the virtues of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life may not inspire our admiration nowadays, yet their place is tilled by a thousand fails and fallacies which iascinate os as irresistibly as did the vanished pomps and powers of the astrologer and the thaumaturge our ancestors. “The ingenuous faith,” to quote an American humourist, “with which many reasoning citizens will purchaso itn infallible hair restorer from a baldheaded barber” may he amusing enough vet, though we laugh at it, the act is lint a sample of the large credulity which animates humanity in general.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 February 1923, Page 2
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157THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 28 February 1923, Page 2
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