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A MAN'S foes are indeed those of his own household. More than one literary or scientific reputation has been injured by the injudicious zeal of a writer's friends to publish after his death the fragments and papers he has left behind. It is natural to imagine that the work and suggestions of a scholar must all be equally valuable, and that by omitting to print any portion of it the world may be a loser. But it must be remembered on the other side that a good deal which a scientific worker commits to manuscript is never intended to see the light, and that in any case it is unfair to him to publish fragmentary remains which he has never had the chance of revising and correcting.
Origines Celticæ (a Fragment), and other Contributions to the History of Britain.
By Edwin Guest. Two Vols. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1883.)
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SAYCE, A. Origines Celticæ (a Fragment), and other Contributions to the History of Britain . Nature 28, 242 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028242a0
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