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That a Jesuit rushes ignorantly to the defense of the false 

 doctrine of a man like Stas, simply because he and Stas 

 were boys together, is the remarkable feature of this case. 



In order to avoid any misunderstanding I beg to add that 

 I have the highest respect for his church and for many men 

 of his order, and remember with especial gratitude the 

 kindness shown my earliest contributions to science in the 

 great works of Father Secchi on the Sun and on the Unity 

 of the Forces of Nature. See my General Chemistry, 1897, 

 p. 29, p. 239. 



