Nature has no partialities for the number ten, and the attempt to shackle her freedom with it will forever prove abortive. The metric system has been described as a walled off area into which nothing will be admitted, nor anything allowed to escape. This was the spirit of the Revolution which gave birth to the metric system. He is more concerned to maintain his own rights rather than invade those of others. The scientists adopted the decimal system on the basis of the metre as unit.
Nothing is more contrary to the organisation of the mind, memory and imagination.
The new system will be a stumbling block and source of difficulties for generations to come. It is just tormenting the people with trivia. It is impossible to investigate the wonderful composition of the microcosm in the figure of man and examine the wonderful harmony of the Universe without an exact knowledge of the proportions of all these parts and to know the number, weight and measure of which the world is composed. They dream of imprisoning nature into a formula, of putting life into an equation. The foot used at Chartres was the pied du roi later known as pied royaume.