The Idolatry of Science 



and at one time the director of the Solar 

 Physics Observatory at South Kensington, 

 has written for us some Elementary Lessons 

 in Astronomy, and at page 5 1 he exclaims : 

 " Then as to the sun's heat. The heat 

 thrown out from every square yard of the 

 sun's surface is as great as that which would 

 be produced by burning six tons of coal on 

 it each hour." So it seems in a multitude 

 of professors there is little wisdom, and that 

 what there is is contradictory. 



This same president of the Meteorological 

 Society, who ought to know, tells us that in 

 considering the climate of the earth we 

 should " leave out of account, as observation 

 shows we may safely do, the small amount of 

 heat received by conduction from the earth's 

 hot interior"; but an F.R.S. and a Fellow of 

 the Royal Astronomical Society, after assert- 

 ing without evidence or proof that the moon 

 once had fertile valleys, remarks : " The 

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