The Ignorance of the Scientific 



of observation seems to be shared with us 

 by cows and sheep and horses and pigs, who 

 crowd into the shade of the trees on a cloud- 

 less summer day; but the president of the 

 Royal Meteorological Society, who is also a 

 professor of geography, is a scientific person, 

 and therefore we find that in a book about 

 climate and weather, in which he claims to 

 be extending the realms of exact knowledge, 

 he writes : " The sun does not itself give 

 out heat." 



This is a typical example of the ignorance 

 of the scientific : only a prolonged obfuscation 

 in meteorological laboratories could preclude 

 a man from being as certain, as are the pigs 

 and the cows, that the sun does itself give 

 out heat. If the sun itself does not give out 

 heat, the ordinary man would like to hear 

 from whence the heat on a cloudless summer 

 day does come. 



Another scientific professor, an F.R.S., 

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