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[We have been favoured by Professor Tait with the following extracts from his Introductory Lecture to his class at Edinburgh University, the object of the Lecture being “to show that Natural Philosophy is a real science, as tested by steady growth and progression, compared with other so-called Philosophies, which have periodic cycles, and come back after a generation or two into the old, old groove, with the same old rope of sand to be spun over again.”—ED.]
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TAIT, P. The Progress of Natural Philosophy . Nature 1, 184–186 (1869). https://doi.org/10.1038/001184a0
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