"When a system is brought before the public, professing to be new, and claiming to be considered as peculiarly useful, it is incumbent on those who introduce it, to show in what respects it is original, and why it is an improvement."
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Emma Willard (1838). A system of universal geography on the principles of comparison and classification.
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