| Description | Diffidence prevented him from answering Larmor's letter. He agrees that hypotheses advance scientific method, but differs in thinking that it must be clear that hypotheses deal with fictitious things. Larmor may recall More protesting against German speculation and he was attacking this confusion. His quotation from Newton was intended to show that he separated fact from fiction, and while he assumed a medium for transmitting energy through space, he would keep the unknowable substance at its simplest terms. H ehtinks that men of science are taking Larmor's ideas on matter and electricity and making them 'gross and crude mechanisms'. More continues in this vein, concluding that the 'Limitations' [of Science] was an attempt to clear the field, and he is working on another book. He criticises [Albert] Einstein, praising Larmor's retraint, and hopes that Larmor will write something on the difference between good and bad hypotheses. He sent a copy of his book to J .J. [Joseph John] Thomson, but has the feeling that he has repaid Thomson's hospitality poorly. |