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MR. PRITCHARD, in reviewing my book on the plurality of worlds, says that I represent Mr. Lockyer as impeding the progress of science; on the contrary, I regard Mr. Lockyer as one who has, in a most marked and important manner, advanced the cause of science, and I confidently anticipate admirable work from him in the future. It is surely not wrong in me to express openly my opinion that Mr. Lockyer's theory of the corona* is erroneous, or that (precisely because an expedition will set forth next December to observe the corona) the arguments against it cannot advantageously be neglected. But to assert, in the face of the fact that I give reasons for objecting to it, that I object “simply because” Mr. Lockyer's “opinions do not square with mine,” is to make a misstatement which one can scarcely imagine to result from mere negligence.
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PROCTOR, R. “Other Worlds than Ours”. Nature 2, 190 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/002190a0
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