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Even assuming that there is no error, and that the metre is precisely what it purports to be, yet it is not easy to see how the artificial standard can be corrected by recurrence to the standard in Nature.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Even assuming that there is no error, and that the metre is precisely what it purports to be, yet it is not easy to see…”
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He questions the feasibility of correcting an artificial standard by referring back to natural measurements.
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