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may be ways of eluding many physical 

 laws and of avoiding submission to their 

 sovereign sway. 



By this sacrifice it has been thought that 

 the eliminated guidance and control can 

 philosophically be reintroduced. 



This, I gather, may have been the chief 

 motive of a critical examination of the 

 foundations of Physics by an American 

 author, J. B. Stallo, in a little book called 

 the Concepts of Physics. But the worst of 

 that book was that Judge Stallo was not 

 fully familiar with the teachings of the 

 great physicists ; he appears to have col- 

 lected his information from popular writ- 

 ings, where the doctrines were very im- 

 perfectly laid down ; so that some of his 

 book is occupied in demolishing construc- 

 tions of straw, unrecognisable by professed 

 physicists except as caricatures at which 

 they also might be willing to heave an 

 occasional missile. 



The armoury pressed into the service of 

 Professor James Ward's not wholly dis- 



