Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1847. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... disguise or misrepresent it how much soever one may. And Dr. Morton is the last one, I doubt not, who has any thing to fear from the decision of this question on principles of equity and justice, or where it is properly understood. It is only those who fear this tribunal who say that they "care nothing for the honors this country has to bestow," and are only anxious to secure those of Europe! This is the declaration of one of the pretenders, as I am informed; and certainly the course of both those, who are trying to wrest the credit from him to whom it belongs, seems to warrant one in classing them together in this respect. Those who have espoused, and who now advocate, Dr. Wells's claims, give, as a reason for his not making his discovery available and establishing those claims for himself, that he did not wish to realize any thing by it, but preferred, rather, to bestow it gratuitously upon the suffering of his race. But how does this harmonize with the principles he discloses when, during his visit to Boston, in October, he advised Dr. M. to sell all the rights he could, and to make all the money out of the discovery in his power? Or, how does it agree with a passage in his letter of October 20th, in which he says, " I hasten to answer it, (Dr. M.'s letter,) for fear you will adopt a method, in disposing of Your rights, which will defeat your object." And similar principles are avowed throughout his two letters of Nov. 20th and Dec. 10th, to Dr. Morton; from which it would appear, that he considered his discovery of so little value, that he was willing to give it to the afflicted and suffering of his race; and that, appreciating the immense superiority of Dr. Morton's over any and all others before made, he advised Dr. M. to adopt such a " method in ...
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