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invited to come at one. Second, That the shaft in the room below does 

 not revolve between the hours of twelve and one. Third, That the 

 room below, containing power, was rented by Mr. Paine, but that he 

 kept it carefully locked, and misguided me as to the tenant. Fourth, 

 That the working parts are concealed in an unnecessarily strong case, 

 well adapted to the concealment of another source of power. Fifth, 

 That part of the apparatus is attached to the wall, so that the machine 

 must always occupy the same position on the floor. Sixth, That the 

 models have not a power proportionate to their size. Seventh, That 

 the machine runs at the same velocity, whether producing one horse 

 power or a fraction of a horse power, and this without a governor. 



These are the facts of the case. Where the power of the machine 

 comes from I am unable to say. Is there some secret connection be- 

 tween this machine and the shaft below, and does the battery serve 

 only to make this connection? Or does the battery, when applied, 

 connect the apparatus with a larger battery? I leave these questions 

 to others; but, unless the reasoning and experiments of a host of our 

 greatest men be false, and unless the greatest development of modern 

 science be overthrown, this machine cannot but derive its power from 

 some extraneous source. 



In a late communication to your paper, Mr. Paine sets himself up 

 as the peer of Faraday, Tyndall and others, and gives as the reason, 

 his long devotion to science. He evidently does not consider that to 

 be ranked with such men requires something more than devotion; it 

 requires brains; brains to discriminate between true science and quack- 

 ish nonsense; brains to discover and originate. And pray what fact, 

 among the thousands of science, does Mr. Paine pretend to have proved 

 beyond doubt ? Let him answer. As to Mr. Paine's " science," I 

 assert that it is a tissue of error and ignorance, from beginning to end. 

 Even his vaunted invention of metallic foil, wherewith to envelop his 

 magnets or wire, can operate in no other manner than to the detriment 

 of his machine, as any such metallic coating lengthens the demagneti- 

 zation, which is the very thing to be guarded against. This is due to 

 an induced current, which forms in the coating, and, being in the same 

 direction as the primary current, operates in the same manner to keep 

 up the magnetism. His reason for the machine's keeping at the same 

 velocity also shows great ignorance of the subject. In the first place, 

 the law of magnetic force, under these circumstances, is stated entirely 

 wrong. For this case, the true law is complex, but most nearly ap- 

 proaches to that of inversely as the distance, instead of as the square of 



