norant and inert people will always follow a
charlatan, because they like to do things which are mysterious and
involve no trouble on their part.

[19] The reason "Why the Prophet should be lonely" is perfectly
elaborated in a chapter under that title in _Logic Taught by Love_,
from which I have quoted.

The Seer among doctors is boycotted by his fellow medicos _after_ he
and his co-workers have tested their experiments for themselves,
weeded out what is false from what is true, and proved their methods
to be right. Not only that, but too often it turns out that it is
proper food selection, cleanliness, personal effort and restraint
advocated by doctors as substitutes for serums and drugs, which
excites the opprobrium of medical coteries. Whereas, the misguided
Serum Specialist, who ought to be saved from himself, and from whom
the public ought to be protected, is given full medical honours--and
facilities to become that most dangerous type of charlatan, the
licensed one.

There are doubtless many abstract questions of health and disease
which orthodox and unorthodox doctors alike are unable satisfactorily
to settle. But if that be admitted, then it is certainly not in the
public interest that serum treatments should be accepted as almost the
last words in medical science. More anti-social still is it to attempt
to justify the compulsory orders of Parliament that expensive
sanatoria shall be built to cope with disease that might be more
economically and more satisfactorily treated.

Is there not too little consideration given to theoretical issues
underlying practical experience of disease? Is there not too great an
anxiety to force remedies at the public expense before all the
bearings of the different questions and their phases have been
considered? All new methods savour too much of compulsion. They all
require the provision of large armies of officials to carry them out.
It is interesting to note that the successors of the men who told us
how grievously the Church has failed because she is established,
should be so anxious to more firmly establish the medical priesthood.

Modern statecraft calls out to us: 'we will appoint officials to
inquire into and decide upon what is to be done, but we will make no
inquiries into the real nature of this disease and that: we will find
out remedies which, in the form of serums to be injected into the
blood, shall counteract the effects of disease: we will also appoint,
at