208 STASIAN FOLLY AND FRAUD. 



And it is magnanimity which has prevented him in 1897, 

 from referring to Landolt's research of 1893. If he had 

 mentioned Landolt, he would have been compelled to say 

 that Landolt's "point of view is so radically different from 

 " mine that I have been unable to make use of his discus- 

 " sions." Constants, p. 6. 



Or, perhaps, he would have regretfully remarked, as he 

 does (p. 60) about Lord Rayleigh's experimental determi- 

 nations: ' ' the research of Landolt is unavailable for any 

 discussion of atomic weights. Perhaps, at some future 

 time, the figures of Landolt may be so corrected as to be 

 useful in atomic weight calculations." 



I am sorry to see the American Stasian Clarke find it 

 possible to demonstrate, by the glorious concordance of all 

 the determinations of Stas, that chemical combination 

 changes the weight of matter, while the German Stasian 

 glories in having confirmed the fundamental result of all 

 work of Stas, that chemical combination has no effect what- 

 ever on the weight of matter. 



Indeed, it would give me unspeakable joy if these highest 

 chemical authorities of Europe and America and both high 

 Government Scientists although not yet both de facto 

 Imperial Scientists could as faithful disciples of the one 

 and only Exact Chemist, Stas, unite and agree on what it is 

 that Stas has established with such wonderful precision. 



What proportions this Schism in the Church of Stas will 

 assume I dare not contemplate. I shudder. 



Both these greater authorities are fanatic disciples of 

 Stas; both declare all question about the exact commensura- 

 bility of the atomic "weights definitely settled BY STAS, and 

 against the possibility of such commensurability as N : O 

 14 : 16 = 7 : % exactly, or C : Orri2 : i6r= 3 : 4 exactly. 



See the quotation of the opening sentence of Landolt in 

 True Atomic Weights, p. 39, " Bekanntlich " 



Of course, both these greatest Apostles of Stas stand 

 upon the solid ground of experiment from the hundredth 

 to the ten-thousandth of a milligramme! Both of these 

 leading Apostles of Stas are destitute of and abhor imagina- 

 tion of any general principle of absolute science (mathe- 



