STATE SCIENCE. 



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The first reaction, when deprived of that false wrap, has 

 been a lusty bray: extrapolation, selection, imagination. 

 Then have come misrepresentation and actual fraud. 

 We will leave them at that stage to their own meditation. 



State Science and State Church. 



By reference to pp. 47-49 and p. 187 of my True Atomic 

 Weights, of 1894, every chemist can see how courteously I 

 treated Messrs. Clarke and Morley. 



Drunk with power, and full of the false notion of experi- 

 mental exactness, they have acted as brutes, at meetings in 

 Washington, Madison, and in their publications. 



I, therefore, have had no reason to state the case other- 

 wise than regard to scientific truth requires. 



It is a most deplorable fact that the General Government 

 has gone into the building up of a Science Trust of the most 

 formidable character, now using nearly ten million dollars 

 a year. 



STATE SCIENCE is already now showing greater corrup- 

 tion and demoralization than STATE CHURCH could boast of 

 after a thousand years of power in all Christendom. 



When the most famous of the branches of State Science 

 at Washington, namely, the Smithsonian Institution, pub- 

 lishes as true and highest science a work so unspeakably 

 corrupt in every fiber as the so-called Constants of Nature 

 of Clarke, with its falsehood-page 6, it is impossible to use 

 language strong enough to condemn this system. 



There is just as much reason for our Government to take 

 in hand the building up of a National Religion, as it can 

 find for its actual building up of a National Science at the 

 lavish expenditure of millions of dollars a year. 



Is there any pressing necessity for our Government 

 building up an Academy of Laputa at Washington, such as 

 Gulliver describes? 



Hg = 200. MERCURY. E RDM ANN. 1844. 



The necessary details have been given, pp. 95-96, for 

 the oxide, pp. 96-97 for the sulphide, and pp. 97-99 for the 

 chloride. See also bromide and cyanide, p. 100. 



