Heart and Science : a story of the present time

capable of understanding us and sympathising with us, be pleased to accep

lly anticipate inexcusable ignorance where the course of the story happe

est rules. Some of us are not guilty of wilful carelessness: some of us apply to competent authority, when we write on subjects beyond the range of our own experience. Havi

nect themselves with the main interest of the novel. In traversing this delicate ground, you have not been forgotten. Before the manuscrip

has even contrived to make use of Professor Ferrier - writing on the "Localisation of Cerebral Disease," and closing a confession of the present result of post-mortem examination of brains in these words: "We canno

subjects in general. You will naturally conclude that it is "all gross caricature." No; it is all promiscuous reading. Let me spare you a lon

, at which "radiant energy" was indeed converted into "sonorous vibrations." Again: when she contemplates taking part in a discussion on Matter, she has been slily looking into Chambers's Encyclopaedia, and has there d

shown me that you have a sharp eye for slips of the pen, and that you thoroughly enjoy convicting a novelist, by post, of having made a mistake. Whatever pains I may have t

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