Excerpt from Transactions of the Liverpool Engineering Society, Vol. 19: Twenty-Fourth Session
On the other hand he drew attention to the want of exactitude especially in dealing with other large questions, and incidentally alluded to the slowness of the human intellect in assimilating well known facts.
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