Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Silver Question; How the Measure of Value Is Changed: An Address at the Annual Interstate Meeting of Farmers, at Williams' Grove, Pa., August 29, 1890
The importance of precision and accuracy in weights and measures is so well understood by all that the least variation in any standard would not be tolerated hence no pains have been spared to secure the utmost precision and certainty in units of length, of volume, of weight, time and force.
Years were consumed by a learned commission in measuring a. Quadrant of the earth's meridian to establish for all time a standard unit of length.
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