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If the investigator should go through the wealthy sections of the cities and suburbs, and record his observations, he would find that the men spend their days feeling the pulse of business in the down-town offices, directing the energies of thousands of individuals, keeping open the arteries of trade, using as productive capital the wealth that they count their own, making possible the economic activity and the very existence of the persons who find fault with their worthlessness.
And I suspect that as much as this at least if not indeed a good deal more will be freely admitted by every candid investigator of Sir Norman Lockyer's theory. The seat of Sir William Ramsay's labors is the University College, London.
Nor were these investigations carried on in the haphazard, blundering, groping manner that unfortunately too often characterizes the explorer in a strange country; on the contrary, they were singularly clear and direct, showing how complete the mastery the great investigator had over the subject he was studying.
"One cannot always have the success for which one hopes. An investigator needs facts, and not legends or rumours. It has not been a satisfactory case." My friend spoke in his frankest and most unconcerned manner. Stapleton still looked hard at him. Then he turned to me.
It's a complete phony, but it's not something done on the spur of the moment just for our benefit. It's too good for that." "Maybe they've had it for a long time just in case somebody like us should come along." "It's possible, but I don't think that's right either," said Cameron. "I can't give you any reason for thinking so except the phoniness goes deeper than merely deceiving an investigator.
There's where I'm more fortunate than some. The fifteen hundred dollars a veritable godsend which I receive annually under the will of my aunt, will keep the wolf at a respectful distance and enable me to play the investigator to my heart's content. I'm determined to be thorough, George. There is no excuse for superficiality in science. But in the end I intend to find out something new.
"My profession has ethics, too, Doctor, although you may not have conceived it," the detective reminded him, quietly. "Even more than doctor or priest, a professional investigator must preserve inviolate the secrets which are imparted to him, whether they take the form of a light under a bushel or a skeleton in a closet. In the cause of justice, only, may he open his lips.
'That's better! Nothing like candour, my young investigator. But I am afraid, having no authority, I cannot assist you at all. Better try Herr Böhme again. I'm only a casual onlooker. 'With shares. 'Ah! you remember that? Now, Böhme is the consulting engineer. Rescue me, Böhme. 'I cannot disclaim expert knowledge, said Böhme, with humorous gravity; 'but I disclaim responsibility.
And he has nothing of the pathos of Du Bois-Reymond’s “ignorabimus.” He is the neutral, prosaic scientist, who will let nothing “tempt him to a transcendental consideration,” either theological or naturalistic, who holds tenaciously to matters of fact, who, without absolutely rejecting a general theory, will not concern himself about it, except to point out every difficulty in the way of it; in short, he is the representative of a mood that is the ideal of every investigator and the despair of every theoriser.
Responses were supposed to be produced, but the corresponding outward changes would be too small to betray themselves to the investigator. The direct observation of the mutations of the evening-primrose has changed the whole aspect of the problem at once. It is no longer a matter dealing with purely hypothetical conditions.
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