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THE House of Commons is now complete; all the boroughs and counties have made their choice, and the composition of the new Parliament has been and will be criticised from many points of view. So far as the interests of science and of what we conceive to be good education are concerned, there is, we fear, little diference between the present House of Commons and its predecessor; just a thin ray of light athwart a cloud of darkness, a tiny morsel of knowledge in a mass of ignorance. This ignorance, however, we are bound to believe is not wilful; we must admit that our new rulers are willing to be enlightened, unless in time they should show themselves otherwise disposed.
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Science in Parliament . Nature 22, 7–8 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022007a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/022007a0