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UNTIL I read Dr. Carpenter's letter in your issue of the 8th inst., it had never occurred to me that his “special purpose” was to bring out strongly my “thoroughly scientific and philosophical method!” This is an act of disinterested kindness which recalls to me the exquisite truth of Dean Swift's remark, “No enemy can match a friend.”
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CROOKES, W. [Letters to Editor]. Nature 17, 43–44 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/017043d0
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