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IT was with no small surprise that I found myself accused by Mr. J. R. Morell, more than once in last week's NATURE, of having overlooked the fact “that all the proofs in the work (‘Essentials of Geometry’) are taken from French and German sources.” Nothing to my mind could be more obvious than that throughout my review in NATURE for Feb. 23, I was criticising the performance of a compiler. In one instance, indeed—Mr. Morell has surely not already forgotten it—I took the trouble to show how Amiot's demonstration of the fundamental properties of parallels had been mutilated by him. I must protest, too, against his claim to freedom from censure on the ground that he has merely copied passages from the works of our highest authorities; for it is about as reasonable as a claim to sanctity would be on the part of one who habitually, it is said, quotes Scripture for his own purposes.
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THE REVIEWER Morell's Geometry. Nature 3, 427 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003427b0
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