The Metric Fallacy

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Shall we carry our heads in the clouds of speculation, or shall we consult the experience of others? Shall we join in the chase of this will-o'-the-wisp which no nation has ever caught? That and that only is the metric question of the hour. Arguments based on the " beautiful interrelation and correlation of the units " have little more application than a philosophical specula- tion regarding the appearance of the back side of the moon.
REASONS FOE THE FAILURE OF COMPULSORY LAWS.
The reasons why
... compulsion has failed and must always fail to do more than bring about a superficial use of the system, and thus, in the words of John Quincy Adams, " increase the diver- sities which it was the intention to abolish/' are not far to seek.
The law may undoubtedly prescribe the units of weight and measure that, in the absence of understanding to the contrary, shall be used in commercial transactions, just as it may prescribe the units of value that shall be used in the same transactions, but in any country in which the individual has any rights what- ever it can have no jurisdiction over measurements made in factories in advance of the sale of the product.


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