Art and Science 



touches Mr. Sweeting with money, Mr. Sweet- 

 ing touches the waiter and the cook with 

 money. They touch the turtle with skill and 

 verified opinion. Finally, the customer applies 

 the clinching argument that brushes all soph- 

 isms aside, and bids the turtle stand proto- 

 plasm to protoplasm with himself, to know 

 even as it is known. 



But it must be all touch, touch, touch ; 

 skill, opinion, power, and money, passing in 

 and out with one another in any order we 

 like, but still link to link and touch to touch. 

 If there is failure anywhere in respect of 

 opinion, skill, power, or money, either as re- 

 gards quantity or quality, the chain can be no 

 stronger than its weakest link, and the turtle 

 and the clinching argument will fly asunder. 

 Of course, if there is an initial failure in con- 

 nection, through defect in any member of the 

 chain, or of connection between the links, it 

 will no more be attempted to bring the turtle 

 and the clinching argument together, than it 

 will to chain up a dog with two pieces of 

 broken chain that are disconnected. The 

 contact throughout must be conceived as 



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