A History and Compa and Metric A. paper Meastirement" was delivered recent ly at the third meeting of the Quest Our Standards Society, at the Royal Asiatic Society's Hall, Museum Road, on Monday, the speaker being Mr. A. E.R. de Jonge, whilst Dr.
Chatley was in' the chair. "The lecturer said that he had chosen the subject because very few people had a conception of the prime importance of these standards for our social, commercial and scientific They usually took them for granted without giving them any further thought, but, they should hot pose a0 lightly over" auch The neces for more or less accurate measurements could "be treed back into the oldcet times human tootal fe. probably sectrred at brat in connection with the comparison of areas of land.! When quarrels about the inteinge: Truant of nelghbesrs. on property arose, the head of the tribe was failed upon to settle them and fran confronted wth the' task Thewe'a standard of length. His Shaies ferysetry fel on bie Son feo ed the mast Seaple satura Standard of length. From this, te Standurd for areas and volume wes Seduced. With the introduction precious metate "ta mediums" of otter mew fundamental standard had to be found. The weight, that inthe product of the mass and the Meeleration by gravity, was found te'bere solic monnere and a Umit and ard bad ta be evolved: the sume time, the balance, ihe donblesrmed ever, wae invented forthe comportsen of such weights, Or, ay one should better ay, of peasen A. standard of time' Found necessary alan early date, fod, although the length of 9. d8y presented a unit for time, 2 shorter Tmicrval bad. tobe selected national Inw dre raised in a national court, a civilized judge finds him-Self under a legal duty to apply an extremely uncivilized rule of law.
'3. Readiness to Sight for law and justice (principles). 'This pom' was illustrated in connection. with China's civil wars, There had been wars of aggression and of racial prejudice but the present Nat alist_ movement was for the Three Principles.
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