The relations of science and religion : a discourse delivered at the request of the local committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in St. Paul's Church, Albany, on Sunday, the 14th after Trinity, August 24th, 1856 / by John H. Hopkins.

  • Hopkins, John Henry, 1792-1868.
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1856
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Credit: The relations of science and religion : a discourse delivered at the request of the local committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in St. Paul's Church, Albany, on Sunday, the 14th after Trinity, August 24th, 1856 / by John H. Hopkins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Chemist eomes, and shows him the reasons of his practice. He analyzes the medicines, and teaches how to detect their impurities. He decomposes the atmosphere, and points out the province of the oxygen, which keeps up the vitality of the frame through the lungs, in the act of respiration. He explains the effects of evaporation in carrying away heat, and so accounts for the use of Diaphoritics in the case of fever. He examines the various poisons, and shows why certain antidotes are beneficial. He unfolds the principles of electricity and galvan- ism, and assigns the grounds on which the diet should be regulated, in the use or the avoidance of certain kinds of food. Yet, with all this knowledge, the Chemist is no Physician. But he is able to assist the Physician by explaining the true theory of his art, and here the proper sphere of Science meets us again. The same relation of Science, which I have thus exhibited in the liberal arts, occurs in all the useful arts, without exception. The Far- mer plows and sows, but it is Science which explains the difference of soils, the choice of his manures, and the rotation of crops, which are best adapted for cultivation. The Founder