ts as regarded a
relative--though, thanks to the goodness of Providence, he had no
personal experience of them."

To any one possessed of common understanding and decent information, who
is accustomed to exercise the least caution in drawing inferences, who
has the slightest glimmering of an idea of the nature of inductive
proof, who does not, in short, jump to his conclusions like a kangaroo,
it is truly marvellous that any sane human mind should be capable of
such a generalization as the above. MR. MIALL says that he became "a
convert to the principles of Homoeopathy"--whence? From carefully
sifting an accumulation of evidence, patiently comparing and analysing
hosts of facts? No; but "from seeing their effects as regarded a
relative."

This is just the mental process by which an old woman arrives at a faith
in HOLLOWAY'S or MORISON'S PILLS.

Observe, too, that the thing which MR. MIALL is persuaded of with such
facility, is one which is, so far from being in itself likely,
anteriorly improbable in the very highest degree, and, indeed,
ridiculously absurd on the first face of it.

It is curious how nonsensically men, otherwise intelligent, will argue
whenever they meddle with a question relative to medicine. A man is
reckoned a fool for talking about any other subject which he does not
understand; but it seems to be assumed that there is a specialty in
medical matters, which admits of sound opinions being formed respecting
them by people who are entirely ignorant of them.

MR. MIALL, however, uses a correct expression when he calls himself a
"convert" to Homoeopathy. Science has no "converts." Scientific truths
are either self-evident or demonstrable. Philosophical systems are not
"denominations" or "persuasions." It is systems of another kind that
exercise faith--such faith as Mr. MIALL appears to repose in
Homoeopathy.

To medical nonconformity, however, let MR. MIALL be welcome, if he will
only suffer nonconformity of another kind to constitute him no obstacle
to that "secular" education which is so needful a preservative against
all manner of humbug.

We say Amen to Mr. MIALL'S thanksgiving for never having experienced the
effects of Homoeopathy in his own person; that is to say, never having
experienced the effects of a serious illness unchecked by the quackery
resorted to for its cure.

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