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IT has now for some years been the custom at the meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, for one of its members to be deputed to deliver a lecture, not to his fellow-members, for whom in the ordinary programme an amply sufficient supply of mental food has been provided, but to the operative classes, in the town where the annual meeting happens to be held. Such a custom has much to commend it, for all alike—the rich and the poor, the worker with the head and the worker with the hand—are interested in the advancement of that science, or “natural knowledge,” for the promotion of which this association, like its elder brother the Royal Society, was founded.
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Unwritten History, and How to Read it 1 . Nature 26, 513–516 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026513a0
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