Athothis : a satire on modern medicine / by Thomas C. Minor.

unrevealed mysteries; the education of minds that can not reason between right and wrong—this is the false system that is undermining the very superstructure of modern society. True religion reviled; true medicine rejected; true justice ridiculed. Egypt once reached the very point for which modern civilization now struggles and fell, and the sound of that fall, though it echoed down the centuries, makes no impression on the peoples of to-day. The lesson taught mankind ages since will be repeated, and the day of social anarchy and chaos is not far distant. Osiris is setting in the west in a blood- red sky. Set, the spirit of darkness, casts the twilight of blackness over the East. Time will roll around, bury- ing millions of mortal spirits in the deepest shadows of night. Then will the avenging Horus arise, shedding the light of a new day from the Orient; and among those who will receive a final reward are the Jews, for they have been among those who maintained a pure faith and guarded the secrets of the Egyptian temples." Paulus Androcydes laughed scornfully, and exclaimed : " Let me hear no more of such vague mysterious proph- ecies. Why extol these Jews with their arrogant pretensions, their assumed martyrdom and continual poising for public sympathy, their clannish predjudices, their stupid superstitions ? What have the Israelites ever done for medicine ? " " Can any intelligent man ask such a question ?" quoth Athothis, in tones of surprise and disgust. "Who handed down the wisdom of other days on which all modern experience is based ?" " We had Pythagoris, Hippocrates, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, and a host of eminent authorities who were not Jews," answered Paulus Androcydes, proudly.