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CHAPTER I. THE NORTH POLAR PRACTICAL ASSOCIATION.
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“And so, Mr. Maston, you consider that a woman can do nothing for the advance of the mathematical or experimental sciences?”
“To my extreme regret, Mrs. Scorbitt,” said J. T. Maston, “I am obliged to say so. That there have been many remarkable1 female mathematicians2, especially in Russia, I willingly admit; but with her cerebral4 conformation it is not in a woman to become an Archimedes or a Newton.”
“Then, Mr. Maston, allow me to protest in the name of my sex—”
“Sex all the more charming, Mrs. Scorbitt, from its never having taken to transcendental studies!”
“According to you, Mr. Maston, if a woman had seen an apple fall she would never have been able to discover the laws of universal gravitation as did the illustrious Englishman at the close of the seventeenth century!”
8“In seeing an apple fall, Mrs. Scorbitt, a woman would have only one idea—to eat it, after the example of our mother Eve.”
“All aptitude? No, Mrs. Scorbitt. But I would ask you to remember that since there have been people on this earth, and women consequently, there has never been discovered a feminine brain to which we owe a discovery in the domain6 of science analogous7 to the discoveries of Aristotle, Euclid, Kepler, or Laplace.”
“Is that a reason? Is it inevitable8 that the future should be as the past?”
“Hum! That which has not happened for thousands of years is not likely to happen.”
“Then we must resign ourselves to our fate, Mr. Maston. And as we are indeed good—”
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adj.显著的,异常的,非凡的,值得注意的 | |
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数学家( mathematician的名词复数 ) | |
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mathematician
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n.数学家 | |
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geographers
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地理学家( geographer的名词复数 ) | |
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殖民地的开拓,殖民,殖民地化; 移殖 | |
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电影放映机,幻灯机( projector的名词复数 ) | |
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annexation
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prodigious
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humbug
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interpretation
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stipulated
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contingency
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ledger
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ascertained
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ascertain
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vt.发现,确定,查明,弄清 | |
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nucleus
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