Paradoxical philosophy : a sequel to the Unseen universe.

  • Balfour Stewart
Date:
1878
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Credit: Paradoxical philosophy : a sequel to the Unseen universe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    My cousin Fanny and I intend to be present; but we come to listen only, not to speak. Dr. Hermann St offkraft.—It is only in churches, I think, that women are ordered to be silent; and, in our preliminary discussion yesterday, the clergyman and your father both took their stand mainly upon woman's side of the question, while Mr. Holdfast told me I was reasoning ‘after the manner of women.’ I think, then, that it is not improbable that you might contribute usefully to our debates. Miss Fairbank.—Not to-day, at least, Doc- tor. We have yet to learn what this Para- doxical Society really is, and how its affairs are managed. Then we shall be able to judge whether we can reasonably take part in your discussions. At this moment Frederick Fairbank and the other absentees appeared on the lawn, each with a fair basket of trout; and the company was soon seriously engaged at breakfast. The conversation, of course, became prosaic as well as discursive and fragmentary, Sir Kenneth stand-
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