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WILL you permit me to express a certain amount of scepticism as to the reality of Mr. O'Toole's troubles on this subject? That some statements made in the text-books quoted are not clear—that by an ingenious collocation of isolated passages from different authors some absurd conclusions may be drawn—we admit, but it may be doubted whether a Publius with the keen critical power of Mr. O'Toole would not be able to eliminate these errors or ambiguities by a reference to the context. In support of this position let us take the points raised by Mr. O'Toole in the order adopted by him.
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TANNER, H. Potential Energy. Nature 17, 81–82 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/017081b0
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