The sewage of the metropolis : a letter to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor / from W. Hope ; inclosing correspondence with Baron Liebig.

  • Hope, W. (William), 1834-1909.
Date:
1865
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Credit: The sewage of the metropolis : a letter to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor / from W. Hope ; inclosing correspondence with Baron Liebig. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    I therefore cannot understand how you can doubt or deny these two statements. You have probably been told that we were a pair of ignorant schemers, regardless of science and her teaching, reckless as to the future, and only desirous to make a little money by the con- coction of a Company. You have therefore, as it appears to me, taken for granted that we had no profound knowledge of the subject, that we were unsupported by any scientific men of eminence, and that our statements were not worthy of serious attention lor consideration. It is for this reason that I have written in such strong terms, chal- lenging you to repeat upon oath that comparison of our scheme to a soap bubble, glistening with bright colours, but inside hollow and empty, which you have already made in writing, because it appeared to me that such a challenge was the only way to induce you seriously to consider our state- ments, and soberly to examine the basis upon which your opinion of our project was founded, in order that you might realise the fact that you were condemning it upon hearsay evidence^ and not upon positive and personal knowledge; and I am delighted to see by the altered tone of your last letter, that you are beginning to doubt whe- ther after all you have not been deceived, and induced to pronounce an opinion contrary to the facts. On the other hand, I do not desire for one