Hadwen of Gloucester, Man, Medico, Martyr
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A CRANK has been defined, probably by Bernard Shaw, champion of all cranks, as a person who holds and acts upon an opinion that is contrary to orthodox teaching, but it is claimed directly he has converted a sufficiently large number of his fellows to his point of view he ceases to be a crank. This is seldom true, as all worthy cranks have more than one arrow in their quiver. They have made the discovery that the majority is not always right; they assume illogically that the majority is never right, and so oppose all generally-accepted theories. In mediaeval days religion provided the best gymnasium for the antics of the crank, but nowadays there is no ' kick
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