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Slowly, with infinite care, the vast spaces of the insane are being plotted by science. Every day new data are recorded, new hypotheses proved. But until the time comes when all this vast field is completely charted, justice must continue to grope blindly in the path of duty. Of course the New Jersey jury were sincere. Of course they acted as best they could in the light of their poor knowledge. But the accuracy of their decision must continue a mystery until this variable, this indeterminate insanity is brought by science within the understanding of human justice...
...judges, the contestants, and the audience were forced to grope their way in the dark from the top floor of the building only to find the door locked. After much prying and pushing the door still remained firm and as the janitor was not to be found the group had to use a window as an exit...
When he wishes to make new chemical researches, no labor or thought is required of him. All is done by divine inspiration. "I never have to grope for methods: the method is revealed at the moment I am inspired to create something new," says he. The conclusion is plain. Only those discoveries will be made which are in accord with the doctrines of the church, and if any discoveries do not agree with church tenets, it is a plain mandate to change the beliefs of the church to accord with the new revelations. If Darwin had only employed such methods...
...first place the Committee does not wish to risk the possibility of injury to the spectators, who last week were forced to grope their way through the dark passages of the Stadium after the game, Secondly, it is considered that the chance of injury to the players them- selves is materially increased if part of a game is played in semi-darkness. In addition it is pointed out that lack of light is not conductive to good football and is extremely trying on the eyesight of the thousands of observers who throng the Stadium every Saturday afternoon...
...defeats in the water; when the team wins, it is actually an occasion for surprise. People not too familiar with conditions here wonder at the cause for this succession of routs, they smile at the facility with which the smaller colleges snatch contest after contest from Harvard, and they grope vaguely for the reason for our pitiful lack of prowess in swimming...