...the metric system into England, and as giving up any purpose of creating a separate system [. . .] and as paving the way for the ultimate exclusive adoption of the metric system'.73 This tacit acknowledgement of the inevitability of a metric future led the us legislature...

...House of Commons approving a compulsory measure, and the subsequent enactment of a permissive law, must be regarded as evincing a deliberate intention...second, decimalization; and, third, the metric plan. But habit makes us so submissive even to constant inconvenience that your committee submit herewith...