On the adaptation of external nature to the physical condition of man : principally with reference to the supply of his wants and the exercise of his intellectual faculties / by John Kidd.

  • Kidd, John, 1775-1851.
Date:
1836
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Credit: On the adaptation of external nature to the physical condition of man : principally with reference to the supply of his wants and the exercise of his intellectual faculties / by John Kidd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. 1 HE occasion which gave rise to this and the accompanying Treatises is explained in the fol- lowing notice : but the Author of the present Treatise thinks it right to add, that, although encouraged by the honour of having been re- commended by His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, he should have shrunk from his present attempt, had he considered that any exact elucidation of the details of science was required in the execution of it. As, however, the intention of Lord Bridge- water, and the very extent and diversified na- ture of the subject, seemed to him almost neces- sarily to exclude any great exactness of eluci- dation, and to require a popular rather than a scientific exposition of facts; and as the whole tenour of his pursuits during the last thirty years of his life accorded with the character of the proposed subject; he the more readily un- dertook a task, to the execution of which he