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it generally proved as delusive as did his calcula- 

 tion that the sun was 1,669,300 degrees hot. 



The great boast of the mathematicians is that Le 

 Verrier calculated where Neptune was before it was 

 discovered by Galle at Berlin, but the fact is he 

 missed it eight astronomical units or over seven 

 hundred millions of miles, and said Neptune was 

 not the planet he was looking for. 



These are two average tests of mathematical 

 calculations, and they are on a par with the mis- 

 calculations of how much the sun must burn up 

 annually under the so-called laws of gravity to 

 supply the necessary heat to the earth and planets. 



Imagination constructive ideality is the highest 

 gift of Deity to man, and the only faculty that can 

 reason from the known to the unknown and com- 

 prehend the wonders and grandeur of the universe. 



I am not a practical chemist seeking the mys- 

 teries of nature in the laboratory, nor a professional 

 scientist exploring the fields of original research; 

 but, like La Place, Comte, Herbert Spencer and 

 others, I formulate my theories and scientific hy- 

 potheses from the latest and best established facts 

 of science as I see it. Science is only unified or 

 systematic knowledge. Every fact is a scientific 

 fact, and every truth is a scientific truth whether 

 it pertains to so-called science or to religion or 

 philosophy. Nature has no subdivisions of science, 

 religion or philosophy, nor astronomy, chemistry 

 or geology ; but all things are a unity, constituting 

 one harmonious universe; and he who separates 

 science from religion or either from philosophy goes 

 contrary to nature and divides the universe into 

 fractions. As I am not a member of any scientific 



