IN the years prior to the war endeavours were made by various internationally constituted bodies to secure greater uniformity in the symbols used in different countries and by different writers to ...

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SYMBOLS are both an aid and an obstacle to thought. Their brevity and simplicity may help us, working according to a fixed system, to perform mental operations which without their aid might be ...