338 Remarks on Chemical Theory, and on 
and elementary treatises they are now inwrought into the 
whole texture of the mete foe the ae acute and logic- 
al Dr. Murray never became a convert to those views, al- 
though he did in the Jatter aie of his life. perhaps virtually 
abandon the old ground ; Professor Berzclius, whose name 
stands as high as that of any man, was a vigorous and for- 
midable opponent of the new views, and we have not heard 
that he has changed his opinions. If we may be permitted 
to express an opinion, but without any intended disrespect 
to the highest < authorities of the day, we would add that there 
appears to have been rather too much haste to adopt the 
new theory, in all its bearings—not only its proofs, but in 
its hypotheses and conjectures, and to earry them in the 
form of doctrine, into every part of the science. In the 
supposed play between wy a hydrogen, chlorine and the 
metallic bases of the — alies and earths to produce 
the muriates_ and. the cise respectively 3 a maze in 
hack nd are made to that ‘ ly, ror ng 
forward peod often wit ee — 
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authority of names, as can well be found i in the poe of. 
science. A moistened chloride becomes a muriate and a 
dried muriate a chloride, and yet Thenard informs us, that 
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th explained. Those 
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