Show AM A J A most curious provision of Herbert rl will Is that which directs that thaI his pamphlet the Introduction of oC thu metric system In III Orent shall h distributed tho lII m bers belS of the tho JallI whenever a to maki that Is III be he before fore body The late Inte i was terribly In earnest about this matter maller If IC seems He I desired tI to tu In tho Ihu the to him even after he had to 10 speak and write among mor mortal tal 1111 And 1111 yet ct It II Is III not to tn be ho posed t hn t he hn considered the present I British mode of or reckoning perfect Hid ilia Idoa was that the Iho duodecimal sl Is 19 hotter than lIann tho Tho number 1 I lu hI contended In Is convenient than the number nUm I 10 o easier dl d Twelve l I twice 1111 while ten tun Is III hut but once one r of or 10 being 21 h which Is IH not lIot an 1111 Integral number He claimed It Is natural to In count In dozens than thanIn In III tens tIn as UK soon Jon as Oil the stage RIngo when counting upon the I he lingers Is I the Ih rule nl Is III paused was thoroughly convinced of oC the soundness of his hla views 1011 In III this regard hoped tat III It Ir a 1 worn wert 11 It would be hI to tho 1 R not nol to the Iho t It II Is III eafe sae to 10 My loW this will 1111 not be Tho duodecimal Involves too radical changes If It It Is II to te ac no accepted an 0 Homo Romo philosophers have out outlined lined It New characters would have hac to ht hO designated 11 for Cor the thC figures 10 and 11 II while 12 would be written 10 The number now ItOI culled lit would bo written OH nil ond 1728 li S would be 1000 The present number would be ho SI gl In tho course of ot n II hundred years or so 80 people might become used to In tho duodecimal ti hut but they not likely to bo In Ina a II hurry hurr to 10 tako up to fO complicated eOIn ted a 1 mode of oC reckoning That philosophers not enger to adopt tho Iho metric system Is easily ell lly ac nl accounted counted for Cor Its It origin Is 18 the Krench revolution when holl It was WAK thought notes POI to change everything French nt that time took tho quadrant of ot the tho earths surface at nl the meridian of or Paris divided It II Into ten million 1 so obtained Inches ami called It a II metre metr Hut the Iho Idea of tak IlIk taking ing In ft IL curved lino IIno nt III mich an all arbitrary meridian does dOCK not lIot to thu th Felon till mind It II Is I 1 that thuI their calculation wrong and that the Iho unit Is not Itol scientific scientifically ally true It has been It elt pronounced the Ihl worst measure In III the world the need lIoNI of or UK th world of ot a II uniform lId system tem of measurement weights counting Is so Rf great that even eun the th worst wont li h likely to 10 be ht accepted In prof pro er to the most provided the worst I Is more convenient Ami 1111 this o U It has hns now IO because h It hns been adopted so widely tho t null i i nations |