 Uniformity of weights and measures, permanent, universal uniformity, adapted to the nature of things, to the physical organization, and to the moral improvement of man, would be a blessing of such transcendent magnitude, that, if there existed upon earth...  Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Boston - Seite 47von Boston (Mass.). School Committee, School Committee of the City of Boston - 1878Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | James McKeen Cattell - 1917 - 588 Seiten
...Uniformity of weights and measures, permanent universal uniformity adapted to the nature of things, would be a blessing of such transcendent magnitude that, if there existed on earth a combination of power and will adequate to accomplish the result by the energy of a single... | |
 | William Earl Weeks - 2002 - 256 Seiten
...for such a project. He left no doubt as to its importance: "Uniformity of weights and measures . . . would be a blessing of such transcendent magnitude,...who should exercise it would be among the greatest of benefactors of the human race." In essence, the Report on Weights and Measures was Adams's philosophical... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1822 - 502 Seiten
...uniformity, and as inevitably tending to the reverse, to increased diversity, to inextricable confusion. Uniformity of weights and measures, permanent, universal...who should exercise it would be among the greatest of benefactors of the human race. But this stage of human perfectibility is yet far remote. The glory... | |
 | James McKeen Cattell - 1917 - 602 Seiten
...Uniformity of weights and measures, permanent universal uniformity adapted to the nature of things, would be a blessing of such transcendent magnitude that, if there existed on earth a combination of power and will adequate to accomplish the result by the energy of a single... | |
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