Human nature must be perfected by long processes of improvement
analogous to that employed in getting a perfect chronometer.
From the practical point of view, chronometry has made in
these last few years very sensible progress. The errors
in the movements of chronometers are corrected in a much
more systematic way than formerly, and certain inventions
have enabled important improvements to be effected in the
construction of these instruments. Thus, the curious properties
which steel combined with nickel--so admirably studied by
M. Guillaume--exhibits in the matter of dilatation are now
utilized so as to almost completely annihilate the influence of
variations of temperature.--LUCIEN POINCARÉ, “The New
Physics and its Evolution.”
(937)
=Error Exposed=--See DOGMATISM, MISTAKEN.