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Excerpt from Researches About Atmospheric Phaenomena
Among the many erroneous views which people take of''the origin of the sciences, no one appears more common than that of supposing that they have all been originally undertaken and pursued with some particular aim to public or individual utility; as if the investigation of nature was not valuable; nor natural phaeno mena capable of exciting us to the pursuit of their causes, on account of the pleasure they produced in engaging the energies of our dif ferent intellectual faculties, independently of any further purpose to which they might be made subservientd, Some imagined object of utility, for the attainment of which people con sider the different sciences as valuable, has ge nerally been supposed to be the cause which has impelled mankind to follow them, as if from feeling certain exigencies arising from time to time ourof''th''é fpi''ogi''essive civilization (if i so.
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Among the many erroneous views which people take of''the origin of the sciences, no one appears more common than that of supposing that they have all been originally undertaken and pursued with some particular aim to public or individual utility; as if the investigation of nature was not valuable; nor natural phaeno mena capable of exciting us to the pursuit of their causes, on account of the pleasure they produced in engaging the energies of our dif ferent intellectual faculties, independently of any further purpose to which they might be made subservientd, Some imagined object of utility, for the attainment of which people con sider the different sciences as valuable, has ge nerally been supposed to be the cause which has impelled mankind to follow them, as if from feeling certain exigencies arising from time to time ourof''th''é fpi''ogi''essive civilization (if i so.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
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Author
Thomas Forster
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780364750919
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
Page Count - 466
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Author
Thomas Forster
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781332033010
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
Page Count - 275
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