Transcriber’s Note: Vaccination is not a delusion. Thanks to vaccination,killer diseases such as small-pox, polio and tetanus have been more or lesseliminated. The supposed link between vaccination and autism comes fromone fraudulent study which actively falsified its data (BMJ 2011; 342:c7452).If you’re reading this with the aim of justifying not vaccinating yourselfor members of your family, stop right there and go and read some modern-dayscience instead.
Vaccination a Delusion
Its Penal Enforcement a Crime:
PROVED BY THE OFFICIAL EVIDENCE IN THE REPORTS
OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION
BY
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
LL.D. DUBL., D.C.L. OXON., F.R.S., ETC.
London
SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO., Limd.
PATERNOSTER SQUARE
1898
Butler & Tanner,
The Selwood Printing Works,
Frome, and London.
PREFACE
This Essay has been written for the purpose of influencingParliament, and securing the speedy abolitionof the unjust, cruel, and pernicious Vaccinationlaws. For this purpose it has been necessary to speakplainly of the ignorance and incompetence displayedby the Royal Commission, proofs of which I give fromtheir “Final Report” and the evidence they havecollected and printed.
I most solemnly urge upon our Legislators that thisis a question not only of the liberties of Englishmen,but one affecting the lives of their children, and thehealth of the whole community; and that they willbe individually responsible if they do not inquire intothis matter for themselves,—not accept the statementsor opinions of others.
In order that they may do this with a minimumexpenditure of time and labour, I have put beforethem the essential facts, in almost every case takenfrom the Reports of the Royal Commission or of theRegistrar-General, and with references to page, question,or paragraph, so that they can themselves verifyevery statement I make. I thus abundantly prove,first, that in all previous legislation they have beenmisled by facts and figures that are untrue and bypromises that have been all unfulfilled; and thatsimilar misstatements have characterised the wholeofficial advocacy of Vaccination from the time ofJenner down to this day. I claim, therefore, that allofficial statements as to Vaccination are untrustworthy.
I then show that all the statistics of small-poxmortality, whether of London; of England, Scotland,and Ireland; of the best vaccinated ContinentalStates; of unvaccinated Leicester; or of the revaccinatedArmy and Navy, without any exception,prove the absolute inutility of Vaccination; and I feelconfident that every unprejudiced person who willcarefully read these few pages, and will verify suchof my statements as seem to them most incredible,will be compelled to come to the same conclusion.
I appeal from the medical and official apologists ofVaccination to the intelligence and common sense ofmy fellow-countrymen, and I urge them to insistupon the immediate abolition o