It is for such reasons that we consider the conflict less arduous than it appears. The fortifications are undermined; the bulwarks are rotten through and through. Over all, we place our confidence in the omnipotent favour of the truth. Goliath, mighty and vaunting, is evermore laid low by a smooth stone shapen in the waters of verity. A WORD FOR THE AUTHOR. The Story of this Great Delusion, I have tried to tell concisely, keeping close to matter-of-fact, and with some exceptions adhering to English experience. When we venture abroad, we are apt to fall into inaccuracies and draw unwarrantable conclusions. I am told my animus is too pronounced, and that I should have done better had I adopted a more judicial tone. Ah well! we should always have done differently had we done differently. It seems to me a man does best when he is most truly himself; and I question whether I should have improved my case had I tried to conceal my real mind in order to make a more startling show of it at the close. L’ENVOI. Lastly, a word to those who are accustomed to dismiss opponents of vaccination as fools and fanatics. It is related of Sydney Smith that calling on Lord Melbourne one morning, he found his lordship in an evil temper and cursing at large. Smith, urgent about his own affairs, at last observed that they should take everything for damned and proceed to business. For like reason I would suggest that the familiar tirade of fool and fanatic be taken as spoken, and that we proceed to discuss vaccination and compulsory vaccination on their merits. * * * * * DR. GARTH WILKINSON’S CATECHISM. _Q._ When Whooping-Cough is not rife, what is that due to? _A._ Nature. _Q._ When Scarlatina is not rife, what is that due to? _A._ Nature. _Q._ When Cholera is not rife, what is that due to? _A._ Nature. _Q._ When Smallpox is not rife, what is that due to? _A._ Vaccination. _Q._ When other diseases in the course of time have become mild or died out, what is that due to? _A._ Nature. _Q._ And when Smallpox has become mild or died out, what is that due to? _A._ Vaccination. * * * * * SANCHO PANZA.-I beg of your Worship that you would let your wound be dressed, for a great deal of blood comes from that ear: and I have some lint, and a little white ointment, here in my wallet. DON QUIXOTE.--All this would have been needless had I recollected to make a vial of the balsam of Fierebras; for with one single drop of that, we might have saved both time and medicine. SANCHO PANZA.--What vial, and what balsam is that?