GALLIO, OR THE TYRANNY OF SCIENCE COPYRIGHT 1928 BY E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED :: PRINTED IN U.S.A. There can be no doubt that the prestige of science has greatly increased of recent times. In the days when Dickens wrote _The Mudfog Papers_ the man of science, to the general reading public, was a purely comic figure. After the man of science had knocked the bottom out of the Victorian universe with his theory of Natural Selection he inspired the respect we accord to whatever is both powerful and sinister. He was observed, warily and acutely, as an enemy. This reaction was perfectly justified, for science, as expounded to the populace by such men as Huxley and Tyndall, depriv…
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