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Rh much debated subject. We need all the light we can get; but in spite of much reading, much ingenuity, and many suggestive hints, Herr Wechssler has not given us a work of enduring value. It is not so much that I dissent from the conclusions reached—they have been reached before and by other paths—as that I believe the methods employed to be radically unsound and entirely incompatible with scientific scholarship, that I have felt impelled to write thus strongly in opposition.