Do you
believe in vaccination?'
'Certainly.'
'Well, it passes my comprehension how you can be so sure of your
beliefs. You'd better come and hear some of the arguments on the
opposite side. I am the secretary of the Anti-Vaccination League.'
(Mrs. Grubb was especially happy in her anti-societies; negatives
seemed to give her more scope for argument.) 'I say to my classes,
"You must not blame those to whom higher truths do not appeal, for
refusing to believe in that which they cannot understand; but you may
reprove them for decrying or ridiculing those laws or facts of nature
which they have never investigated with an unprejudiced mind." Well,
I must be going. I've sat longer than I meant to, this room is so
peaceful and comfortable.'
'But what about Lisa's future? We haven't settled that, although
we've had a most interesting and illuminating conversation.'
'Why, I've told you how I feel about her, and you must respect my
feeling. The world can only grow when each person allows his fellow-
man complete liberty of thought and action. I've kept the child four
years, and now when my good care and feeding, together with the
regular work and early hours I've always prescribed, have begun to
show their fruits in her improved condition, you want she should be
put in some institution.
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