The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-26
REBELLING AGAINST SCIENCE

teemed contemporary. The Norfolk Landmark. will have to be classed among the unbelievers, for it evinces decided disposition to take fall out of Science. and for that sin there can be no temporal forgiveness. Science, we will have The Landmark know, has us all by the throat and it rules all things and all objects, from the wrig- gling of the dust microbe to the phases of Jupiter. Science Is It" in the econ- omy of Nature, and he who disputes its decrees or finds fault with its find ings, is laying up for himself wrath against the day of wrath. and making ton.
 The especial cause of the kick which our contemporary is making is-cheese. Thus it plains:
 To lead the truly scientific life, we must give up cheese also. A great deal has been sacrificed already, but we Of strong digestive organs have held our cheese with a convulsive grasp. It mas been almost the last tie that binds us to the old days when we used to eat when we were endangered and drink
  Then. The Landmark quotes from Sanitary and Municipal Engineering" a publication not only ''of learned length and laundering sound" but | one which claims to have searched out and uncovered the very root of human wisdom; and to have taken a peep be- hind the veil of the altogether unknow- | hak no one should eat cheese unless it is properly cooked, and as if that were not enough, The Journal of the s. and M. E. goes on to add. according to The Landmark: ~
 1t says that even cooked cheese is a crime: that "the ses. method sfs dealing 1 with cheese is to give it to the pigs, as it Is nothing more or less than decayed | Well. Mark Twain admits that he is not | sufficiently weli-educated to tell when he is in really good health, and The Land | mark admits that 1t does not know l enough about engineering to tell exactly | what human being should eat-but give up the cheese? Or cook 1t? or feed 1t | to the pigs? Not so-like William Tel, we prefer to take the chances.
 | Now, what in the name of Tom Edi- son does Engineering know about what we should or should not eat? or what has Sanitation got to do with diges- | tion? But it's no matter whether 1t knows anything about it or not. it has made its declaration and that declar- ation isn't going to be accepted with out a protest. It is one of the most universally diffused foods in all the list. There are more varieties of it than there are of politicians. and 1t is among the oldest of dietary articles, for it's origin is lost in the obscurity of antiquity. We have little doubt that Abel. when he was keeping the flocks in Eden, mixed the goats and the sheep and made some kind of cheese out of the milk. At any rate it is there is milk, and has always been considered a safe,- wholesome and de- sirable diet until modern science took a whack at 1t. Now We are virtually told that it is several kinds of poison. Did one ever hear of such treason?
 If all our readers who have kept up with the trend of modern thought and reasoning had been asked to state the main reason which science would ad- vance against eating cheese we are sure the almost universal and sponta- neous reply would have been-microbes' And the answer would have been a center shot. That Is just what San itary and Municipal Engineering" does for us. It assures us that the bene- fcial effect of cooking the cheese is derived from the destruction ot the virulent microbes which are pres ent," for it must be borne in mind that while a live microbe is very devil of a pest a thoroughly cooked one is as harmless as a sucking dove. That is to say. he IS harmless in the present stage of investigation. We have little doubt that science will discover a germ in time that will be as immune to heat as the fabled salamander, and though thrown into a furnace heated seven times more than 1t was wont to be heated" he will turn up smiling and ready for business. However that
 may be, 1t is the decree of science that
 cooked cheese is dangerous and un,
 cooked cheese Is the never failing de,
 stroyer of human, life. All the same
 people will eat cheese and enjoy it anc | want more