Adams Opposes Atoms

However, Woodhouse was not doctrinaire, continued to harhor some uncertainties about the new chemistry emanating from France, and was solicitous of the aging Priestley. In a letter answering an attack by Dr. John Maclean, professor at Princeton University, one paragraph reads  

A judgement may be formed how well you have accomplished your purpose, and what right you have to condemn the experiments of Dr. Priestley in the authoritative manner you have done, having made none yourself, from the following particulars. You are not yet. Doctor, the conqueror of this veteran in philosophy. 

The rigors of his work undoubtedly contributed to the untimely death of Dr. Woodhouse, who Silliman noted never made use of any of the facts revealed by chemistry, to illustrate the character of the Creator as revealed in his works and Dr. Benjamin Rush, his former teacher, simply called an open and rude infidel, in 1809 at the age of 39. 

Parkinson, Chemical Pocket-Book, James Humphreys, Philadelphia, 1802. 

Priestley, Experiments and Observations Relating to the Analysis of Atmospherical Air, Philadelphia, 1796. 

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