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excesses he committed, fell betiveen one high and one loiv, giving 

 the mean value the greatest possible force, and making it 

 identical with our atomic ratio. 



This makes the total range on the atomic weight of 

 nitrogen 0.002 above and below. 



Our Final Conclusion. 



Thus, in conclusion, our diagnosis of the Morbus Stasii 

 of Mr. Wm. Crookes has permitted us to add rather than to 

 detract from the value of his laboratory work. 



And now, if Sir William Crookes will permit me to, I 

 will most cheerfully ascribe all his manifestations of injustice 

 and brutality to the Morbus Stasii, from which he has 

 suffered for thirty years. 



If cured by this, my somewhat bitter medicine, if com- 

 pletely freed from this really terrible disease, still affecting 

 so many official chemists in high stations, I shall cordially 

 congratulate Sir William Crookes to the most excellent 

 analytical determinations of the nitrate of thallium he made 

 in 1873, as plain William Crookes, by using reasonable 

 amounts of the interesting and important metal he had dis- 

 covered. 



And I do hope that Sir William Crookes, at last, has 

 found out that our science of chemistry is no longer 

 restricted to the laboratory, but reaches up into the highest 

 realms of truth and wisdom the source of which is God. 



Vain imaginations are not science, and have no place in 

 science ; but the ideals of truth, wisdom, and of God, are no 

 vain imaginations and no true science will grow where these 

 ideals have been rooted out. 



To present false statements of facts is to lie abominably; 

 in the Science of Nature, to falsify in this way, is to commit 

 a sin against the Holy Ghost, which is an unpardonable sin. 

 It is recklessly committed to-day, throughout the scientific 

 world, to the great hindrance of scientific progress. 



May this chapter diminish the commission of this crime, 

 ' to the greater glory of God." 



