This is the Golden Age of the Export, the man whose life-long study of one subject, or of one aspect of a Subject, is supposed to give h'm, in the scientific or technical world that ex cathedra authority which in the realms of religion and morals has been claimed only by Pio None and his successor. So long as the Expert confines himself to his speciality, 50 long as the cobbler sticks to his last, he can weave such a web'of words about x simple matter, or make such a fuss over the hammering of a few wooden pegs into n sole, that the laity are imposed upon, Experts are sensitive and dangerous people to differ with, as Emile Zoln hus recently discovered. "Had they wielded inquisitorial powers he might have suffered in the flesh xs well as in the spirit.
It is therefore with some compunction and searching of the heart that one who is not a specialist ventures to examine the prophecies uttered in the Fortnightly Review for Aprillast_ by Mr. Fred. 'P. June, under the title of "The Maine Disaster
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