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MR. AND MRS. HOWARD in NATURE of February 17 show that “the past history of agricultural science furnishes several examples of belated explanations of the utility of practices the value of which has long been a tradition among practical men.” In other departments of life practice in advance of knowledge is frequent, and there is one which struck me recently, and may have been observed by others, which is the practice of blowing hot and cold with the mouth which Æsop makes use of in his fable of the “Satyr and the Traveller,” and has given rise to the common disparaging saying of “blowing hot and cold.”
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AITKEN, J. Practice and Knowledge. Nature 83, 70 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/083070a0
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