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WHEN I am tired I sometimes go by train to Reading and cycle over here swiftly in the afternoon, and then I dress and dine comfortably at the Mitre and go out for a stroll. Perfect rest is not possible unless there is moonlight, but Oxford is always wonderful and satisfying and restful to an engineer like me. It is not because of its age, of the great men who have studied and worked in its colleges, of its almost unique character and high rank among universities, of the sacred beauty of its colleges and streets. It is because that to me it represents what is most persistent in the constitution of the British Empire. The Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, the Temple and City of London, Windsor, the great mansions of our English nobles, each of these suggests much to any man who is fond of reading, but each suggests only a small part of what Oxford represents.
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Oxford and Science 1 . Nature 69, 207–214 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/069207b0
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