Excerpt from Epidemic Delusions: A Lecture
In vain the student of nature explained the fam ine, the astronomer the eclipse, and the general the defeat. Men would have miracles, and when they could not 'find them they invented them. But science, who touched the fables of the past, and they vanished like empty vapor, who laid her finger on the miracles of the mediaeval world, and they faded away like summer clouds in a twilight sky, is at work in this age, and many are the dreams she is dispelling, and many the visions she is dissolving.
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