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CONSCIOUS that the protestant is a weak-kneed urochs, I ask permission to protest by implication against a common trivial mistake. How long will people go on writing about “political meteorology” and the like, meaning, by this, haphazard prediction? The meteorologist is as near a cousin to the local “weather-prophet” as Helmholtz to the artisan who is making a spectacle-case; or, to use an illustration lent me by a lady, as the astronomer is to the astrologer.
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NUBES A Rejected Address. Nature 49, 555 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/049555a0
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