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THE many obvious objections that may be urged against the well-meant proposal which Earl Stanhope brought forward in the House of Lords the other evening, for the creation of an Order of Merit to confer upon men who have deserved well of their country in Literature, Science, and Art, have already been pretty fully discussed both in the Upper House itsell and by the daily press. Happily βIt is not now as it hath been of yore;β the classes for whose behalf it is sought to create a special Order of Merit, are getting to be regarded as less and less a peculiar people, both by themselves and by the public generally. To many it appears that the creation of any such order would be going in the face of the progressive tendencies of the age, and, we are confident, would not be in accordance with the desires of many of the men whom Lord Stanhope is sincerely anxious to honour. It is well-known, that over and over again have both academical and imperial honours been refused by men whom all acknowledge to have produced works that must be placed in the highest rank of intellectual products, and they spurn patronage.
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An Order of Intellectual Merit . Nature 8, 177 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008177a0
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