72 ABSOLUTE ATOMIC WEIGHT. 



p. 164) the corresponding atomic weights of nitrogen varied 

 all the way from 14.05 to 14.10. 



Yet the Stasians, referred to by Clarke above, and all 

 other Stasians have for forty years extrapolated the atomic 

 weight of nitrogen for any weight of silver, below 100 

 grammes and above 400 grammes. 



In fact, the Stasians, are hardened criminals in this mat- 

 ter of extrapolation as well as in all other scientific crimes. 



But what is the use referring to such things any longer? 

 Why suppose it possible that such men, u blind followers of 

 a blind guide," will want to see light? Matt. XXIII. 



Hence, let us say just a few words on this great crime of 

 extrapolation we have committed above and exactly in the 

 same way in our limit method of our True Atomic Weights 

 of 1894 and at almost every step we have taken in our life! 



Truly, every step is an extrapolation ; we do not know 

 that the laws under which nature worked yesterday, will 

 remain to-day. We do not know that the sun will rise to- 

 morrow; if we say it will, we commit the horrible crime of 

 extrapolation ! 



Come to think of it, I was instructed in this scientific sin 

 of extrapolation by my own father ; when a tnere boy, helping 

 him surveying I had to prolong a line by setting stakes in 

 continuation of two stakes and surely, that is extrapolation 

 of the worst kind ! But I remember I did it well ; probably 

 natural depravity aided by parental authority and instruc- 

 tion. 



In fact, Euclid and other old Greek heretics, inculcate 

 the same sinful operations. 



It is really grotesque to hear " the blind followers of the 

 blind guide " speak of the crime of extrapolation from out 

 of the mire of error and fraud in which they have compla- 

 cently weltered like a lot of the most common pachyderms 

 of these prairies. How deliciously dainty the Greek sounds 

 in this place. 



The whole Stasian system being a mysterious muddle of 

 error and fraud, varnished with a pharisaical show of sham- 

 exactness, is true to itself in crying: you extrapoJatel 



When Newton is said to have thought ( ' if that falling 



