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It will help undo the primeval confusion of which the Tower of Babel was the representative.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “It will help undo the primeval confusion of which the Tower of Babel was the representative.”
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Sumner uses the Tower of Babel as a metaphor to illustrate how the metric system can resolve confusion in measurements.
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