[Ads-l] Antedating of "Social Scientist"

[Shapiro, Fred]

social scientist (OED 1865)

Address of Edwin Chadwick, Esq., C.B., as Vice President of the Public Health Section to the General Meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, Glasgow, September 29th, 1860., (Jan., 1861)


..., to the destruction of moral as well as physical health. ele- ments are as capable of analytical observation as those of inor- ganic substances by the chemist. When the social scientist —if he may be so designated—examines these elements of moral, as...


Fred Shapiro


------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org