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lous and inexperienced, partly from this, and partly 

 from the fascination of the very improbability, rush 

 at once into the snare; bring the specidations or 

 assertions to practical test ; get quickly disenchanted 

 by reahties, and ever after are disposed to treat all 

 written directions on material science with contempt. 

 We bring forward these authors in the order of per- 

 usal. We have found several remarks similar to our 

 own ; this was to be expected. 



