another misattributed quote

[victor steinbok]

Interestingly enough, Snopes would have taken even this claim to task.
Snopes points out that the Scotsman Tyler did, in fact, practiced
philosophy in the 18th century, but Tytler, the supposed author of the
quote, came nearly 100 years later (or, in the 19th century, in any event).
So even in this supposedly accurate quote, there is a misattribution.

VS-)

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Garson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>wrote:

> ...
> http://bit.ly/Ptfabq
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> Cite: 1946 June 1, The Brainerd Daily Dispatch, Washington Letter by
> Congressman Harold Knutson, Interesting Statistics by Sam Pettengill
> (sp?), Page 3 (NA Page 2), Column 8, Brainerd, Minnesota.
> (NewspaperArchive)
>
> More than two centuries ago, a Professor Tytler, of the Edinburgh
> University, made the following observation.

...

[End excerpt]

>

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