The chemistry of commerce : a simple interpretation of some new chemistry in its relation to modern industry / by Robert Kennedy Duncan.

  • Duncan, Robert Kennedy, 1868-1914.
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[1907]
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Credit: The chemistry of commerce : a simple interpretation of some new chemistry in its relation to modern industry / by Robert Kennedy Duncan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE PULS book is a straightforward attempt to interpret * int° simple terms and for educated lay-folk some new science in its relation to modern industry. But the interpretation of science is by no means easy; it is one of the most difficult of arts. Certainly, the discoverer of any new work is him¬ self almost inevitably incapable of telling it; and it results, generally, that a world of educated laymen, intellectually eager to knoAv of the advance of knowl- edge, subsist on a pabulum of illogical and, for the most part, sensational misinformation; either that, or discoverer and discovery together remain unknown to hh.99 per cent, of educated people. The extreme diffi¬ culty of the art is the real reason why it is either not practised, or practised in such a way as to appear dis¬ creditable in the eyes of men of science. It is not by any means that the art is not needed among men. The thousands of young men that go out of the schools into business and professional life are not fools, nor do they desire the stagnation of the intellectual curiosity that