| Title | : | Reflections on the Decline of Science in England |
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| Author | : | Charles Babbage |
| Release | : | 1989-04-23 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Philosophy, Books, Nonfiction, Professional & Technical, Education |
| Size | : | 551756 |
| Of the causes which have induced me to print this volume I have little to say; my own opinion is, that it will ultimately do some service to science, and without that belief I would not have undertaken so thankless a task. That it is too true not to make enemies, is an opinion in which I concur with several of my friends, although I should hope that what I have written will not give just reason for the permanence of such feelings. On one point I shall speak decidedly, it is not connected in any degree with the calculating machine on which I have been engaged; the causes which have led to it have been long operating, and would have produced this result whether I had ever speculated on that subject, and whatever might have been the fate of my speculations. |
