Voting Scicflf- 
SCIENCE 
IS 
KNOWLEDGE. 
KNOWLEDGE 
IS 
POWER. 
J PRACTTCAL JOURNAL OF 
HOME ARTS 
Vol. IV. 
NEW YOEK, NOVEMBER 1881. 
No. 11. 
Some of Ingersoll's Mistakes. 
ATTERS rela- 
ting to religion 
and politics do 
not come with- 
in the scope of 
the Young Sci- 
entist, not be- 
cause we do 
not attach full 
importance to 
the m o m e n - 
tous questions 
which arise 
within these departments of human 
thought, but because we propose to leave 
them to those journals to which they are 
specially appropriate, while we devote 
ourselves to placing before our young 
readers those practical applications and 
developments of science which will give 
both heads and hands something to do. 
It is not, therefore, with any of Col. In- 
gersoll's religious or theological utter- 
ances that we propose at present to nied- 
dle ; these we leave to other hands. But 
Col. IngersoU has assumed the position 
of an "advanced thinker" in science as 
well as in other subjects ; in his writings 
we are constantly confronted with such 
expressions as "modern science;" "the 
science of the 19th century;" "modern 
scientific progress ; " and this to such an 
extent that t'hose who are not well in- 
formed in regard to the results of modern 
scientific research are almost led to believe 
that he knows something of science, at 
least so far as the elementary principles 
are concerned, whereas the trufii is that 
in regard to the first principles of mathe- 
matics, physics and chemistry it is de- 
monstrable that he knows absolutely 
nothing, or at least (which is the same 
thing) nothing that is of any value to 
himself or any one else. He has not even 
sufficient knowledge to enable him to read 
our most popular scientific authors, such 
as Tyndall, understandingly, and when 
he attempts to quote them from memory 
every sentence is misrepresentation and 
every statement a blunder. A sin s i <^ 
specimen of his mistakes, taken from his 
lecture which he calls "The Mistakes of 
Moses," is abundantly sufficient to sub- 
stantiate all that we have just said. At 
