The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-05-24

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cine they Eanrdered along, employfng the
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minerals. the most Ioath<ome connections
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Defended for c~nfzrfes, only dfscar.Inx
them when the fnnoya fors compelled them
By their success to reluctantly reiinquiAh
their oetopas bold
Every irregular move I'm medicine has
been protest against the harfArisies of the
old Irrational conxisEscrsfe- II mast be re-
rsembcrcd that every step taken hiss been
bitterly contested by those In power. hat
after failing 20 -rszsh the beneficial limo
walton they fhsse been compelled to en-
brsre H.
Come. wake up asd move on said the PEG
pie TO the old school. scceps the new teach
ings. or we win leave yor 60 ssarve,
aud thus 10 spite OF their con
ser~sfism they have had 10 move
on. TO be sure always away behind
the times. but ssiH they ersvied snail-iike
and painfully along. far in the rear Of the
started standard bearers Of progressive
thought slowly and rebeiliorsly they had
TO scceyt the discoveries Of those whom
they denounced a. dangerous quacks
Many have been the rude awakentngs that
this time honorcd old school has suffered
from progressive thought
But fame Ia earned. not merely by things
written. hut by arsiuous greatness OF deeds
accomplished. Every assault upon the I'm
pregnable citadel Of true science has added
numberiess recruits TO Its cause The ANU
milton of cafumny has been exploded The
deadly projectiles hurled have missed their
destination. The shafts and arrows lie
broken 81 the feet Of victory. And when
Aufora's rays shall have pierced the smoke
Of the besutiful, the name OF the histoee-
nctic system Of medicine viii glitter .
bright and impefishable sun In the diadem
Of science, when those who tried to wind
their slimy coils around its snowy throat
have mouldercd in oblivion and their cpl
taphs have vanished from the face Of the
earth.