254 Mr. Redfield’s Second Reply to Dr. Hare. 
ions were published must be quite evident.” And he then ad- 
duces the fragment of a sentence, “ Were it possible to preserve,” 
ce. [par. 46.] Now whether this passage be most remarkable 
for the self-complacency or the pertinacious unfairness which it 
exhibits, I shall leave unprejudiced readers to determine. ‘That 
my opinions have not changed since I read Dr. Hare’s “ objec 
tions,” the following quotation may serve to show ; and as it is 
a portion of the very paragraph from which he has here quoted, 
and part of the same article in which the alleged “ denunciation” of 
the meteorologists occurs, it could hardly have escaped his eye or 
memory. I said, (this Journal for 1835, Vol. xxvin, p. 317,) tel 
‘freely apmrr that HEAT Is OFTEN AN ExcITING as well as modify- 
‘ing cause of local winps, and other phenomena, and that it mas 
‘an incidental or subordinate action (though not such as is usu- 
‘ally assigned) in the organization and DEVELOPMENT OF STORMS, 
‘and that, in certain circumstances, rr InrFLUENCEs the interposi- 
‘tions of the moving strata of the atmosphere. Its greatest DIRECT 
‘INFLUENCE is probably exuiBirEeD in what are called LAND AND 
‘SEA BREEZES, or in the DIURNAL MODIFICATIONS which are EXHIB- 
‘yrep by regular and Genera winps. But, so far from being the 
‘great prime mover of the atmospheric currents, either in produ- 
‘cing a supposed primary north and south current, or in any other 
‘manner, I entertain no doubt, that if it were ‘ possible to pre- 
‘serve [as Dr. H. then inaccurately quotes] the atmosphere at @ 
‘uniform temperature over the whole surface of the globe, the 
‘general winds could not be less brisk, but would become more 
‘constant and uniform than ever.’” And with all this before him, 
he reasserts that I rejected THe inrLuENcE or HEAT! If greater 
injustice has been manifested in any scientific discussion of the 
present century, it has not fallen under my notice. 
But as I may have been more frequently misunderstood on the 
subject of the action of heat and rarefaction than perhaps any 
other, I will avail myself of this opportunity to say, that jn my 
first paper (this Journal, Vol. xx, p. 18) I had quoted from Dr. 
Hare a few sentences which, so far as they went, expressed my 
- notions then, and which I have never yet found any reaso? Lag 
change; and I concluded what I said then upon the subject of 
heat in these words: ‘‘'To create in the midst of these equ@ 
‘ winds or elsewhere, by the aid of rarefaction, a fanciful soma 
‘into which the atmosphere from a distance of many miles, and 
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