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IT is well that there are men brave with the pen as there are others brave with the surgeon's knife or the soldier's bayonet—to whose actions the word temerity can only be applied in the full consciousness that the moving force which impels them is neither vainglory nor ignorance, but a strong sense that providence or fate has placed them in a position where, and when, they, and they only, must obey that call which they feel to be the duty of the moment.
Geodesy.
By Col. A. R. Clarke (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1880.)
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HERSCHEL, J. Geodesy . Nature 21, 605–609 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/021605a0
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