The development of science among nations / by Justus Liebig.

  • Justus von Liebig
Date:
1867
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Credit: The development of science among nations / by Justus Liebig. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE AMONG NATIONS. We are taught by the history of Science that our knowledge of bodies and phenomena has its origin in the material and mental requirements of men, and that its condition depends upon the state of progress which these have attained. Unassisted by art, man is unable to resist tlie outward injuries which continually endanger his existence, and the active pressure of the external world challenges his dormant mental powers to combat these hostile influences. Everjflhing that he needs as a protection against climate and weather, and against his enemies, or that he may require for his subsistence or restoration to health, is derived from Nature, which thus communicates to him a knowledge of countless objects and their peculiarities, of the action of fire, and many processes by which he adapts the raw material to the purposes of Life. In a former treatise I drew attention to the peculiar power possessed by the imagination of connecting together the pictures conjured up by the impressions of the senses, and of drawing conclusions from them. The inferences thus drawn
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