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...understanding of things outside their own sphere. Such progeny are likely to be dull and stupid, cherishing rigid forms and traditions. Genius, on the other hand, results from the crossing of dissimilar high mental traits resulting in a complicated psychological structure in which the components of two strongly opposing germ plasms remain in polar tension throughout life. This tension exerts a driving force and produces that instability of temperament, emotional pressure and restive impulsiveness which are the earmarks of genius.-Dr. Ernest Kretschmer, University of Marburg...
Science is always a lap ahead of popular belief. Newton and Darwin are today high priests of truth to the man in the street. Materialism, once a scientific theory, is now the fatalistic creed of thousands. But materialism, says atom-wise, germ-conscious Haldane,"is nothing better than a superstition, on the same level as a belief in witches and devils...
Until 1894 there was no exact method of curing diphtheria. That year the German, Emil A. von Behring, progressing along research lines which Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch had opened, discovered that the poisons which the diphtheria germ gave out stimulated, if injected into an animal, antitoxins in the animal's blood. Such antitoxins, injected into an active case of diphtheria, counteracted the effects of the toxins, cured the disease...
...same number of boys and girls, who never had the childhood form, catch it from others when they grow up. Three good means of diagnosis for early tuberculosis exist: X-rays; tuberculin tests; precipitation of a suspect's blood serum by fatty phosphatide fractions of the tuberculosis germ.* Mild doses of infection immunize a person. Massive doses present great future dangers. Attempts to vaccinate babies with living cultures of the germs are likely to prove harmful, because it has been impossible to free such vaccines from virulent, deadly germs...
...Harding literary style to the complete bewilderment of the White House newsgatherers. He had another duty: to sit in the executive office lobby and amid much blue cigaret smoke converse in low important tones with older Washington correspondents about White House doings. In each "conversation" was planted the germ-idea of a news story and each story reflected credit upon President Harding...