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THE worst way to teach science is by catechism, for it leads to belief in doctrines on the authority of the book, while experience and demonstration are neglected. For this reason, we think the compiler of these fifty questions and answers would have done chemical science better service if he had refrained from publishing them. The incorrectness of several of the definitions confirms us in this opinion.
A Short Catechism of Chemistry.
Part I. By A. J. Wilcox. Pp. 16. (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, and Co., Ltd., 1896.)
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A Short Catechism of Chemistry. Nature 55, 52 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/055052c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/055052c0