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A FRIEND has lent me a copy of a pamphlet recently published by Mr. Herbert Spencer, in which certain statements of mine are most unsparingly dealt with, especially in the way of attempted contrast with others made by Sir W. Thomson and myself. I am too busy at the present season to do more than request you to reprint one of the passages objected to (leaving it to your readers to divine to what possible objections it is open), and to illustrate by a brief record of my college days something closely akin to the mental attitude of the objector.
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TAIT, P. Herbert Spencer versus Thomson and Tait. Nature 9, 402–403 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/009402a0
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