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IN the February number of Science Progress there is an interesting article, by Prof. Ostwald, on “Emancipation from Scientific Materialism.” There are so many vague fallacies underlying it, that it would hardly be worth answering, only that there is considerable risk that others, chemists especially, may be carried away by the arguments of one whom they rightly value as a leader in their own domain when he descants positively about the realm of mechanics.
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FITZGERALD, G. Ostwald's Energetics. Nature 53, 441–442 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053441a0
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