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sea-urchins, to the utter distraction of the rules of 

 nature's game as he has learned them. 



"Somewhere there must exist the man whose 

 skill with the pen and whose appreciation of knowl- 

 edge are equal to the task of acting as interpreter 



between scientists and the world The world 



is hungrier for knowledge than it is for amusement, 

 and the sales of the books of the man who suc- 

 ceeds in making science readable will make the re- 

 turns of even the most popular novelist small in 

 comparison." 



This splendid editorial states facts graphically and 

 truly, and portrays the real condition of things. 

 It shows a scientific chaos, which portends a transi- 

 tion state, and a rapid evolution from the old tra- 

 ditions to a new and more perfect science. With- 

 out meaning to be egotistic or to assume any su- 

 perior knowledge, or to have any of the qualities 

 suggested in the editorial, I am impelled to suggest 

 that if there are persons befogged scientifically, if 

 they will read The Cities of the Sun, I think their 

 minds will be clarified on many points and many of 

 the old scientific traditions will fade into the noth- 

 ingness from which they came. 



I am glad to welcome so able a champion of the 

 electrical theory as Mr. Cope Whitehouse, who 

 achieved fame by discovering that the depression 

 in the Egyptian desert could be used for irrigation, 

 and which the English Government is now utilizing. 



This New York scientist says, in an interview in 

 the Kansas City Star of Dec. 2d, 1902 : "The Eng- 

 lish scientists have partially reduced our solar sys- 

 tem to a machine, and assigned to Deity little less 

 than the duty of squeezing heat from the sun or 



