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" When weights and measures present themselves to the contemplation of the legislator, and call for the interposition of law, the first and most prominent idea which occurs to him is that of uniformity: his first object is to embody them into a system,... "
The Measure of the Circle: Perfected in January, 1845 - Page 107
by John Davis - 1854 - 156 pages
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The Metric Bulletin, Issues 7-18

Metric system - 1877 - 154 pages
...The grand aim of the metrological reform is comprised in the three words, uniformity, permanency, and universality; one standard to be the same for all...and all purposes, and to continue the same forever. Of the importance of this object, said John Qnincy Adams, " Uniformity of weights and measures, permanent...
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Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Boston

Boston (Mass.). School Committee, School Committee of the City of Boston - Boston (Mass.) - 1878 - 498 pages
...The grand aim of the metrological reform is comprised in the three words, uniformity, permanency and universality; one standard to be the same for all...and all purposes, and to continue the same forever. Of the importance of this object, said John Quincy Adams, " Uniformity of weights and measures, permanent...
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The Metric System: Hearings Before the Committee on Coinage, Weights and ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures - Metric system - 1906 - 338 pages
...will remember that; so will a shrewd politician. Adams said (Davies Metric System, pp. 89, 90, 93) : His purposes are uniformity, permanency, universality:...no legislator has hitherto been found to possess. * * * He is not infallible, he is liable to mistake the means of effecting his own objects. * * * The...
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The Psychology of Social Institutions

Charles Hubbard Judd - Social psychology - 1926 - 362 pages
...there will be only one standard unit of long measure, and its uniformity will be that of identity. When weights and measures present themselves to the...to possess. The power of the legislator is limited by*the extent of his territories, and the numbers of, his people. His principle of universality, therefore,...
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Uniform Time: Hearing on S. 2041 and S. 2226

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1948 - 80 pages
...this report to Congress he (afterward the sixth President of the United States) says: The legislators' "purposes are uniformity, permanency, universality...and all purposes and to continue the same forever." And again he says : "uniformity of weights and measures, permanent universal uniformity adapted to...
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The Scientific Monthly, Volume 4

James McKeen Cattell - Electronic journals - 1917 - 588 pages
...ability. The grand aim of the metrological reform is comprised in three words, uniformity, permanency and universality; one standard to be the same for all...and all purposes, and to continue the same forever. ... A universal system of metrology should possess the following four characters: 1. Its base-unit...
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Selected Materials on Radiation Protection Criteria and Standards: Their ...

United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy - Radiation - 1960 - 1262 pages
...activities in this area led him to state the purposes of the legislator in fixing standards ( 1 ) : His purposes are uniformity, permanency, universality;...and all purposes, and to continue the same forever. Here, he was speaking of weights and measures which might admit to such an ideal approach. By putting...
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Selected Materials on Radiation Protection Criteria and Standards: Their ...

United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy - Radiation - 1960 - 1378 pages
...ixing standards (1) : s purposes are uniformity, permanency, universality ; one standard to be ami! for all persons and all purposes, and to continue the same forever. e, he was speaking of weights and measures which might admit ;uch an ideal approach. By putting the...
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The Scientific Monthly, Volume 4

James McKeen Cattell - Electronic journals - 1917 - 602 pages
...ability. The grand aim of the metrological reform is comprised in three words, uniformity, permanency and universality; one standard to be the same for all...and all purposes, and to continue the same forever. ... A universal system of metrology should possess the following four characters: 1. Its base-unit...
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