CONCLUSION. 20$ 



matics) or old fogy belief in the highest truths of a Pytha- 

 goras or a Plato. 



Our showing up of their fancied weighings to the thou- 

 sandth of a milligramme by the simple use of their pencil 

 and paper, is of course nothing but what might be expected 

 of such a heretic barbarian who dares think truth higher 

 than authority of position or decoration. 



However, to see the Church of Stas split upon the old 

 rock of die Erhaltting des Stoffes the permanence of matter 

 in weight is enough to sadden even the heretic, who now 

 must fear they will let the fires go down and thus not burru, 

 him quickly at the stake, but just slowly smother and smoke 

 him. 



Here endeth the Reductio ad Absurdum. 



C. THE CONCLUSION. 



Our Standard Atomic Weights have been Proved to be the True 

 Absolute Atomic Weights of the Chemical Elements. 



We shall not carry this work any further; we shall rest 

 our case here. 



Those who still may claim to be not fully satisfied, we 

 shall not trouble any further with reasons or facts. 



Our standard atomic weights gave us the numerical 

 values of the standard atomic weights of all the compounds 

 used in atomic weight determinations. 



A simple division then gave us the standard atomic ratio, 

 which we calculated to five decimals. 



This atomic ratio was taken as standard of comparison 

 for all analyses made, each one of which was expressed by 

 its own analytical ratio, also calculated to five decimals. 



The comparison of these analytical ratios, representing 

 the observed facts, the chemical analyses, showed through- 

 out as near an absolute coincidence with the calculated 

 standard atomic ratios as the degree of actual precision 

 attained to would allow. 



