Is the heresiarch a less pernicious member of society than the murderer? Is not the loss of one soul a greater evil than the extinction of many lives? […] If then, the heresiarch causes infinitely greater evils than the murderer, why is he not as proper an object of penal legislation as the murderer? We can give a reason,—a reason, short, simple, decisive, and consistent. We do not extenuate the evil which the heresiarch produces; but we say that it is not evil of that sort against which it is the end of government to guard.
I am convinced by large experience that the coryzæ which correspond respectively to Merc. and Ars. will yield more readily and certainly to the 6th dilution than to any others, higher or lower, which I have yet tried; whilst, on the other hand, I have found this same potency vastly less satisfactory in some other forms of disease to which the drugs are homœopathic.
But Mr. Fukuda appeared to have enough support to win a majority of the 528 votes in the election, with 387 party lawmakers each holding one vote, and prefectural chapters holding 141 votes.
