Papers relating to the Fusion of Carbon, 117 
utthough on an experimental subject, compsate of arguments 
alone, whatever ingenuity these may ex wht ibit. 
Those nie Live read Mr. Vanuxem’s last rhemoit ir, (page 102, 02.) and my 
strictures upon it, will be enabled to judge how far this reasoning does 
honour to the body whence it originates. If it be indeed the duty of the 
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Journal, “use “ —. weapons,” one of the combatants having come 
into the field with a deflagrator, his assailant ought not to have Ss 
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Mr. 
t his inability to fuse carbon by a compound 
Mew tine, ptoved i it infusible by a deflagrator ; wa secondly, ‘that Pro- 
fessor Silliman had sanctioned this procedure. How were these fallacies 
to be corrected, agreeably to the views of the Committee? Were they 
to be met with the “same weapons,” gee! to _one part of the 
reasoning; or, according to another part, by the : 
Eaboratory;” rendered so especially appropriate, ‘a ‘being ina 
“ Fiterary contest 2” 
The latter passages of Mr. Vanuxem’s memoir will show “that Jit is 
both controversi al, and argume mentative ;.and that the commenc ing para- 
graph was int iitended to convey the erroneous impressions which it was uty 
object to correct. 
r- Vanuxem’s friends opposed the ene ey of my s aitinkee ae 
the plea, that criticism is not permitted in the Journal of the Academy, 
which i is, virtually, the same Seams as that taken in the rage agreea- 
po to the ee me which has been made from it; yet a 
‘the the wor on in question “vill show, that, in the late num- 
>: there is much criticism ‘on Wilson’s Ornithology ; and, for an 
earlier instance, I sats cite the paper of Mr. Say, Vol i at A05. «. 
‘I ecannot unders tand, how temperate criticism is to be ex with- 
out injury to the cause of trath. ae if the ¢ Academy are r d at all 
events, to deny its admission, ‘they should _ee 
must give false i 
This must always ensue, aaa rrect prwareak toe or experiments are 
incorrectly associated or applied. th gts pe siete ery, one afimal 
or plant, may be mistaken for another, and re aa 8 comm 
i be 3 ki 
e confu sion of malleable fron PL Aes carbon, or a 
