[Ads-l] Antedating of "Social Scientist"

[Shapiro, Fred]

social scientist (OED 1865)

1861 Edwin Chadwick _Address of Edwin Chadwick, Esq., C.B., as Vice President of the Public Health Section_ 14  When the social scientist -- if he may be so designated -- examines these elements of moral, as well as of physical or bodily combustion, I apprehend that his difficulty will be, to satisfy himself how it is that the moral, as well as the physical combustion, is not greater.


Fred Shapiro

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