STAvSIAN FOLLY AND FRAUD. 



Church and State Religion are no worse than the rot, rant 

 and cant of the State Science of to-day. 



They cannot call upon the stake to-day to annihilate the 

 independent thinker; but they know how to use the more 

 refined and more cruel methods of torture available to 

 " civilization." 



III. CHEMICAL ACTION CHANGES WEIGHT OF MATTER. 



But we are lightly touching the u Exact Science" of our 

 Government Institutions at Washington, including the 

 Smithsonian Institution under the control of Congress. 



The more we are condemned to take notice of the pro- 

 ductions of the public printing press of our Government in 

 science, the more astonished we become at the absolute lack 

 of understanding of even the rudiments of science and logic 

 displayed in these imperialistic publications. 



There is not a chemist " per orbern " who believes that 

 chemical combination affects the weight of matter; for he 

 knows there is not a particle of evidence, not a solitary 

 experiment, in favor of such an effect. 



On the contrary, it is held as an axiom, not only by all 

 chemists, but by all natural philosophers as well, that the 

 'weight of any material particle is entirely independent of its 

 state of chemical combination. 



But these Government " Constants of Nature''' 1 produced 

 by the harmonious interactive co-operation of the highest 

 departments and all at public expense, do declare, as a 

 result of the "Exact Science" which has produced these 

 "variable constants'*'* that are " contrary to nature" that 

 as a matter of fact, potassium chloride possesses a weight 

 quite different from the sum of the potassium and chlorine 

 contained therein. 



I was indeed struck with awe and admiration for the 

 Exact Science of our Government when first I noticed this 

 great new fact on page 334 of said (< Constants " of 1897. 



I have since found that this great and marvelous annihi- 

 lation of what we all supposed to be an axiom of chemistry 



