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IT was of very little importance to me to find out whether the method was new; the important thing was that it was not generally known in England, that I, who read a good deal, had never seen the method, and that many of my friends who read French and German engineering books more than I do had never seen it. I may say without any contrition that there are useful things not only in French and German, but in Italian, Russian, and Chinese, as well as in English books unknown to me and to many other people, but surely this is not enough for an argument for the absolute necessity for a study of Chinese or German. Before our “advanced public schools” take up the study of French and German or Chinese, I should like to see them take up the study of English. In America and Scotland English is really well taught in many schools; this is not the case in England.
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PERRY, J. [Letters to Editor]. Nature 69, 57 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/069057a0
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