Excerpt from The Composition of Hydrogen and the Non-Decomposition of Water Incontrovertibly Established: In Answer to the Award of a Medal by the Royal Society, Whereby the Contrary Doctrines Are Absolutely Affirmed; Also the Absurdity of the Existing Systems of Electricity and Magnetism Demonstrated, and the True Ones Given A distinguished physiologist has said, that we meet with such an antagonism at the hands of jea lousy, prejudice, and indifference, that truths the most important must be urged again and again ere they make a due impression, and the quiescence which prevails with regard to those which I have published, goes far to confirm the soundness of this remark. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.