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Science will prove themselves as real and as destructive as 

 were the errors and horrors of the State Church in its darkest 

 days. 



The Union of State and Science (so-called) of to-day is 

 rapidly producing as dangerous consequences to the liberty 

 of conscience and the freedom of research, and even to the 

 very lives and reputations of modern investigators, as the 

 Union of State and Church has been condemned for by all 

 i{ liberal " writers since the burning of Giordano Bruno and 

 John Hus. 



The mental and by necessity the moral depravity 

 resultant can plainly be seen in Official Science at Wash- 

 ington, by any one who has not closed his eyes. 



The Systematic Error of Crookes. 



We have above excluded the first determination recorded 

 by Mr. William Crookes. Possibly Sir William may com- 

 plain about this rejection as a " criminal selection " on our 

 part, and insist on his record in its entirety. See his fine 

 editorial of 1896, referred to above. 



Being always anxious to accommodate my friends, I 

 cannot allow such a claim as to discrimination or selection 

 take a shadow of footing. 



I shall, therefore, now take up this No. i of Mr. William 

 Crookes, and shall consider it just as valuable, deserving 

 just as much confidence, as the other nine determinations 

 above specially considered. 



But we have an awkward way of looking at the totality of 

 the, facts in every case coming under our scientific consid- 

 eration. We have shown, in our True Atomic Weights, 

 that the amount of matter used is generally a very important 

 factor. 



We shall, therefore, now once more consider all the ten 

 determinations published by Mr. William Crookes (which 

 determinations we take for granted comprise the total num- 

 ber he has made and not a selection) and arrange them in 

 the order of the weight of the metal thallium used. We 

 need, for this purpose, only the round number of grains. 



