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I AM not about to continue a controversy which I regret having been provoked into by the misrepresentations of one who ignored the contents of works he professed to review. Reply and rejoinder may go on endlessly. I could not, to much purpose, argue with Mr. Hayward, who, instead of taking such unconsciously-formed preconceptions as those resulting from the infinite experiences of muscular tensions and their effects, proposes to exemplify unconsciously-formed preconceptions by a consciously-formed hypothesis concerning the relation between weight and motion. Nor should I care to discuss any question with my new anonymous assailant; who, when certain examples given show the “exact quantitative relations” spoken of to be those of direct proportion, describes me as “intensely unmathematical” because I subsequently use the more general expression as equivalent to the more special—which, in the case in question, it is.
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SPENCER, H. Necessary Truths—Physical and other. Nature 10, 3 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/010003a0
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