from striking out promiscuously, teaching and practising
in the name of Science without knowing its fundamental [1]
Principle.
It is important to know that a malpractice of the best
system will result in the worst form of medicine. More-
over, the feverish, disgusting pride of those who call [5]
themselves metaphysicians or Scientists,—but are such
in name only,—fanned by the breath of mental mal-
practice, is the death's-head at the feast of Truth; the
monkey in harlequin jacket that will retard the onward