On railway and other injuries of the nervous system / by John Eric Erichsen.

  • John Eric Erichsen
Date:
1866
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Credit: On railway and other injuries of the nervous system / by John Eric Erichsen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    judgment, or wrong in the morale, of its members. But when we look around us, and inquire into the conduct of members of other professions, we shall find that in every case in which the question at issue cannot be referred to the rigid rules of exact science —whether it be one of Engineering, of Law, of Politics, or of Religion—the same Conflict of Opinion will and does, as a matter of necessity, exist, and the same subjects and the same phenomena will present themselves in very varying aspects to the minds of different individuals,—Conflict of Opinion being the inevitable result. Look at any great engineering question. Are En- gineers of the highest eminence not ever to be found ranged on opposite sides in the discussion of any point of practice that has become one of opinion, and that cannot be decided by a reference to those positive data on which their science is founded ? Is there no discrepancy of opinion often manifested amongst gentlemen of unimpeachable integrity in their Profession, as to the possible causes of that very accident, perhaps, which has occasioned the catastrophe that has led to your presence in the witness-box ? Is the Law exempt from Conflicts of Opinion, inde- pendently of those that are of daily occurrence in its Courts ? Are there no such Institutions as Courts of Appeal ? Are Decisions never reversed ? Are the fifteen Judges always of one mind upon every point that is submitted to them ? Do we never see Con- flict of Opinion spring up in the Lords and Com-
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