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Herbert Spencer and à priori Axioms

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I THINK it is positively due, not only to the writer of the now famous article in the British Quarterly Review, but to Newton's memory and to Science itself, that the correspondence which has been going on should not seem to terminate as a drawn game, at any rate in the opinion of some bystanders, who may from their antecedents be presumed competent to judge.

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A SENIOR WRANGLER. Herbert Spencer and à priori Axioms. Nature 9, 500 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/009500a0

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