make of him a true Reformer.”  But it is not that peculiar loneliness of the Seer that the medical trade unions afford the reforming physician.  That is inevitably and sufficiently accorded him by the “unwillingness of the masses to enter into the thoughts of the Seers."[19] An ignorant and inert people will always follow a charlatan, because they like to do things which are mysterious and involve no trouble on their part.

 [19] The reason “Why the Prophet should be lonely” is perfectly
 elaborated in a chapter under that title in Logic Taught by Love,
 from which I have quoted.

The Seer among doctors is boycotted by his fellow medicos after he and his co-workers have tested their experiments for themselves, weeded out what is false from what is true, and proved their methods to be right.  Not only that, but too often it turns out that it is proper food selection, cleanliness, personal effort and restraint advocated by doctors as substitutes for serums and drugs, which excites the opprobrium of medical coteries.  Whereas, the misguided Serum Specialist, who ought to be saved from himself, and from whom the public ought to be protected, is given full medical honours—­and facilities to become that most dangerous type of charlatan, the licensed one.

There are doubtless many abstract questions of health and disease which orthodox and unorthodox doctors alike are unable satisfactorily to settle.  But if that be admitted, then it is certainly not in the public interest that serum treatments should be accepted as almost the last words in medical science.  More anti-social still is it to attempt to justify the compulsory orders of Parliament that expensive sanatoria shall be built to cope with disease that might be more economically and more satisfactorily treated.

Is there not too little consideration given to theoretical issues underlying practical experience of disease?  Is there not too great an anxiety to force remedies at the public expense before all the bearings of the different questions and their phases have been considered?  All new methods savour too much of compulsion.  They all require the provision of large armies of officials to carry them out.  It is interesting to note that the successors of the men who told us how grievously the Church has failed because she is established, should be so anxious to more firmly establish the medical priesthood.

Modern statecraft calls out to us:  ’we will appoint officials to inquire into and decide upon what is to be done, but we will make no inquiries into the real nature of this disease and that:  we will find out remedies which, in the form of serums to be injected into the blood, shall counteract the effects of disease:  we will also appoint, at your expense, doctors to perform these operations:  we will force the man whose family may have the misfortune to contract a disease,