Excerpt from Law of Heat: Supplement; Original Observations and Discovery; The New Science; Ice Theory in Connection With Molten Rivers

The thoughts advanced, are original, and clearly defined. If gentlemen consider the ideas worthy of consideration, I hope they will be honorable in the future and give credit to the author.

The writings now extant of scientists on both continents bear testimony, that they were in blissful ignorance of the fact, that cold produces heat by condensation of water, when I published my ice theory, May sth, 1866, in the Rochester Express, headed, Does God's Law Conflict, or is it Man's Reasoning? Even, long after this, their lectures, all their books and magazine articles show, that, they never dreamed of such a thing until I addressed them.

My discussion with the most noted of American chemists regard ing this subject (their letters to me) reveal this statement to be a substantial fact. But look at the change - This observation, is now in both continents, dished out on the table of science, as com mon food, without even a hint of acknowledgment to the author.

The question comes up, is there no honor among men, who are pretenders of science? A class of men who took great care to build college walls between women and science, were two-fold bound, to make acknowledgment for important scientific discovery that was made by a woman, outside the pale of science.

Even opening college doors to women at this late date, can never make amend for such open piracy. If my theory is worth any thing, it should be considered in its purity - it does not belong to any old gravitation theory - neither do I wish it disfigured and plastered with molecular nonsense. There is a large growth in the sea, resembling sea-weed, but investigators claim it is an animal that it has a reaching-out tendency - an absorbing capacity for small animals. In the molecular theory there is resemblance to the creature, for it has a reaching-out and absorbing tendency for little ideas. With a labyrinth of language, it is effective (in small degree) in disguising piracy. But when it undertakes to absorb important and original matter, that in no way belongs to it, it is led into entanglements.

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