Mr. Elbert Hubbard on vaccination : a critical examination.

  • Millican, Kenneth William.
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[1907]
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Credit: Mr. Elbert Hubbard on vaccination : a critical examination. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    but because no proposition is accepted in a logical disputation until it has been either ad- mitted, or sustained in face of challenge. - And possibly Mr, Hubbard may think it “more likely that in his excess of zeal’ Dr. Welch also “lied” in making these statements; or that per- haps (since neither he nor Mr. Hubbard. was present at the time of the origin of vaccination and both must consequently be equally depen- dent for their premises upon historically de- livered information and not upon _ personal knowledge of facts) if not Dr. Welch, at least his authorities “lied.” One other consideration forces itself upon us in this connection. If neither Dr. Welch nor those on whom he depends, “‘lie,”’ other people besides Jenner “deliberately ran the risk of laying’ themselves “open to the charge of committing murder.” Taken in connection with the facts relating to yellow fever, which have occurred within the past ten years, and the actors in which are all (save one who lost his own life in the cause) alive to go into the witness box, we are by no means convinced by Mr. Hubbard’s assertion that “it 1s much more likely that in his excess of zeal Dr. Jenner lied, than that he deliberately ran the risk of laying himself open to the charge of committing murder.”’ The particular reasons in favor of lying in a particular assertion being thus removed, we should be glad to know as regards general as- sertions what general reasons can be adduced that shall convict Mr. ]1ubbard’s opponents of i)
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