Mr. Elbert Hubbard on vaccination : a critical examination.

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

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    MR. ELBERT HUBBARD ON VACCI- NATION; A CRITICAL EXAMIN- ATION. | Calumnies and misstatements, in themselves too outrageous to be worthy of notice, some- times acquire an adventitious importance from the circumstances under which, or the influ- ence of the person by whom, they are pro- claimed. Mr. Elbert Hubbard, of East Aurora, N. Y., publisher and editor of The Philistine, is a man who by dint of holding very extraor- dinary and unconventional views—in some of which we agree with him—and in consequence of a facility of style, a forcibleness of ex- pression, and an insinuating power of sugges- tion, carries weight with a considerable circle of readers, takes up the cudgels in the De- cember number of the P/ulistine against vac- cination, and gives utterance to some very pro- nounced views thereon. Views, however, are one thing, and facts an- other. The question, for instance, of the pro- priety of compulsory vaccination is a matter of views. It is conceivable that a man may concede every claim that is made for the pro- phylactic virtue of vaccination in regard to small pox, and yet be of opinion that the in- terference with individual rights involved in the principle of compulsory vaccination is more injurious to humanity, to say nothing of
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