Charles Sumner: “Unquestionably it is difficult for one generation to substitute a new…”

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Unquestionably it is difficult for one generation to substitute a new system for that learned in childhood.

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Sumner reflects on the challenges of replacing an established system of measurement with a new one across generations.

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Charles Sumner: “Unquestionably it is difficult for one generation to substitute a new system for that learned in childhood.”