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really been before the public for about fifty years, and many books have been 

 written on the subject. These are usually, however, more academical than 

 practical ; and the present book will therefore be particularly useful in the 

 latter direction. Air. Ross is very gentle with the authorities in that he 

 attributes the absence of practical measures mostly to ignorance. Stupidity is 

 generally the appropriate word. People who are pestered by flies in any part of 

 the world ought to retort by pestering the local Sanitary Magnates in return. 

 As the author explains, this is the only way of having attention paid to abuses. 



R. ROSS. 



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Man's Place in the Universe. A Study of the Results of Scientific Research in 

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