ABSTRACT
Ordinary men and women are, for the most part, aware that there are many matters as to which their own personal judgement is not wholly trustworthy. They look about the world anxiously for founts of wisdom, and by placing their trust in them they arrive at a comfortable certainty. Savages trusted the medicine man, who by slow stages developed into the priest. The priest is being succeeded by the physician, the physician by the man of science. The man of science in general (though there are honourable exceptions) is nothing loath to take up the position which the public offers him. He is willing to make pronouncements about the laziness of the wage-earning classes, the superiority of the Nordic races, the eugenic superiority of the rich, and any other topics that may at the moment be of political interest.
