Lord Salisbury endorsed Lord Lister's arguments. 'Under certain circumstances and
in the presence of ertain delusions the action of power does not tend o obedience but to resistance.' He ended by warning he Peers that if they rejected the conscience clause he Bill would be lost. On a division the clause as rejected by a majority of 2 (40 to 38). If the *beral Lords had acted as their leaders acted in the ominous the clause would have been carried. As our eaders know, we are strongly in favour of obtaining he maximum of vaccination, but in view of Lord Lister's rave and deliberate opinion we deeply regret that the Peers hould have rejected the clause, and trust that when the emmons reinstate it they will defer to the opinion of Lord ster and save the Bill. But though we are entirely nvinced that this is now the right course, we cannot baolve the Government from the charge of grave mismanage- • ent. It is possible that, after all, the road to a stricter forcement of vaccination may be vii the conscience clause, ut, if so, it was deplorable that the Government did not find out till they were pressed in the Commons.
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