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I AM afraid I share the proverbial obtuseness of my countrymen in the matter of jokes. I really did not at first see the point of Mr. Venn's humorous suggestion that “an attitude of slight social repression” should be observed towards troublesome authors of new proposals. Now however that Mr. Venn has kindly pointed it out to me (see NATURE, vol. xxiv. p. 140), I see the joke perfectly and can laugh at it heartily.
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MCCOLL, H. Symbolical Logic. Nature 24, 213–214 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/024213b0
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