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A REPLY 



MR. DALTON'S OBJECTIOXS 



TO A LAVE 



Cljeorp of ilfKjceli <Sasies^ 



IK A t.r.TTER PROM THE AUTHOR TO DR. HOLME. 

 BY 



MR. JOHN GOUGHe 



Read Jan. a?, iSo^, 



Sir, 



A LETTER from my' friend Mr. Daltoa 

 informs me, that my theory of Mixed Gases 

 has been lately read before your Society, 

 where the leading opinions of the system were 

 controverted by my friend, who may be justly 

 called the present champion of the contrary 

 doctrine. Opposition on his part was reason- 

 able, and might be expected ; because the 

 human mind is naturally partial to its own con- 

 ceptiong, and frequently condescends to prac- 

 tise a little self-delusion, when obliged by the 

 force of facts and arguments to abandon a fa- 

 A'ourite notion. No man is exempt from tlu^ 

 impositions of self-love ; and the universality of 

 the passion forbids us to construe a particular 

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