Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Homeopathy, Quackery, Gender, Faith, Proof, Induction

    Agreeing with Michael Faraday's claims regarding the 'scientific reasoning' of the 'public mind', responds to a Morning Post report of Edward Miall's conversion to 'the truth of the principles of homeopathy'. Believes anybody who has only 'the slightest glimmering of an idea of inductive proof' will be shocked at this news, and likens Miall's grounds for believing in something so absurd to those held by an 'old woman'. Insists that science, unlike homeopathy, is not a question of faith and has no converts because its 'truths are self-evident or demonstrable'.