on Mr. HempatlU TJicorij. 289 



One more example shall be all of this kind with which 

 I will trouble your readers. At p. 406 of his first paper 

 Mr. Herapath, among a variety of other nimierical compari- 

 sons of his theory with experimental facts, mentions the re- 

 sults of some calculations on the mixtures of mercury at given 

 temperatures and in given proportions. In all that he has here 

 said of the subject, he has not so much as hinted at his me- 

 thod of deducing the principles on which he founds his cal- 

 culations from his theory ; as any one who chooses to take 

 the trouble of turning to the place may convince himself. 

 Mr. H. has indeed rested satisfied in this place with giving a 

 simple statement of the results of his calculations, without once 

 adverting to his mode of theoretical deduction ; but in the third 

 Prop,, and its scholium, of his second paper, he has entered 

 into both theory and calculations at length. Now it is a cir- 

 cumstance worthy of observation, a fact highly illustrative of 

 C.'s "honour" and "integrity," that he has omitted even to 

 allude to the theory in Mr. H.'s second paper ; and has quoted 

 from the first the simple results, the mere calculations of the 

 case in question, as a specimen of the "mode of reasoning," 

 which he calls " reasoning in a circle," that Mr. Herapath 

 pursues, for the purpose, I suppose he means, of misleading 

 his readers. 



To amplify these examples of C.'s regard to truth, which 

 I have selected from a multitude of the same kind, is im- 

 possible. However, as there may be those who would hardly 

 admit there can be a person that could in the face of facts, 

 with unblushing confidence, and amidst the most palpable 

 evidence to the contrary, wilfully be guilty of such misre- 

 presentations as I have adduced, they may in charity be in- 

 clined to attribute them to a confused intellect. They may 

 imagine, and account for these things by supposing, that 

 C. cannot clearly discriminate between opinion and assertion, 

 between one expression and another, between time and a blow, 

 between momentum and velocity, or between narration and 

 argument; and such ideas they may confirm by showing, that 

 C. confounds effects with causes, calls his ovfii simple statements 

 reasoning, and tells us, as his own discovery I suppose, that 

 Newton gives his sentiments of heat and gravity in a manner 

 which " affords no pretence to consider them his opinions!!" 

 To such charitable proofs of a cloudy mind, of course I can 

 say nothing; and I must, I presume, therefore allow, that 

 what in another would be considered the effects of intention, 

 the want of " honour" and " integrity," must in C. be the na- 

 tural conse(juences of an unnatural intellect. 



We have now said enough to give a tolerable idea of the 

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