It is very difficult for us, placed as we have been from earliest childhood in a condition of training, to say what would have been our feelings had such training never taken place. (Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet)

It is very difficult for us, placed as we have been from earliest childhood in a condition of training, to say what would have been our feelings had such training never taken place.

Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet

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