Correction, Sumner's speech was made on 1865 July 27. I was off by a year.
Jim
James Frysinger wrote:
Today I am submitting two columns (this week's and next) to The Mountain
View, the newspaper of record for Spencer, TN and for Van Buren County
for which it is the county seat. In the second one, I am ending with the
concluding remarks by Senator Charles Sumner in his speech before the
Senate on 1866 July 27 in support of passing what became the Metric Act
of 1866. I thought that his words were eloquent and interesting and I
present them here.
"By these enactments, the metric system will be presented to the
American people, and will become an approved instrument of commerce. It
will not be forced into use, but will be left for the present to its own
intrinsic merits. Meanwhile it must be taught in schools. Our
arithmetics must explain it. They who have already passed a certain
period of life may not adopt it; but the rising generation will embrace
it and ever afterward number it among the choicest possessions of an
advanced civilization.”
No, I will not publish my columns on this mail list.
Jim
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James R. Frysinger
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