170 THE ENZYME TREATMENT OF CANCER
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evidences for my conclusions as to the nature of cancer and its treatment on
natural or scientific lines were beyond them. “ Was der Bauer nit kennt, das
frisst er nit.” What the leader-writer or ex-cancer researcher never learnt,
that he is not likely to try and refute. Even “ medical science “ would tilt in
vain against the organization of the visible universe, though it has often made
the essay, as witness Pasteur’s experiences.
In
his essay “ on Liberty,” which, as a weighty, scientific document may be
recommended to the attention of those who write on and of “ medical science,”
John Stuart Mill says: “ The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution
is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till
they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.”
The
passage cited was laid down by Mill in 1878, and possibly human nature has
changed since then. The reader will note that all experience refutes the
dictum. Medicine, which includes, or should include, the applications of
certain sciences to human needs, has its own history in this respect. It is
much simpler, and requires infinitely less knowledge, a modicum of crass
ignorance often sufficing. to stifle a. truth in its birth than to refute it on
scientific grounds. To attempt to do the latter, moreover, entails the
observance of certain canons of science, one of these being that no assertion
shall be made without the production of the evidences. This is, perhaps, the real
reason why the evidences for the asexual (trophoblastic) nature of cancer,
etc., have never been attacked on scientific grounds.
The numerous “ negative results” obtained by Dr. Bainbridge and by many
other medical men are not scientific evidences against the truth of my
conclusions.