 I look upon our English system as a wickedly brain-destroying piece of bondage under which we suffer. The reason why we continue to use it is the imaginary difficulty of making a change, and nothing else; but I do not think in America that any such difficulty...  Nature - Page 60edited by - 1885Full view - About this book
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...seriously. I do not think any one knows how seriously I speak of it. I look upon our English system as a wickedly brain-destroying piece of bondage under...the way of adopting so splendidly useful a reform. I know the velocity of sound in feet per second. If I remember rightly, it is 1,089 feet per second... | |
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