Scientific Essays and Lectures

Scientific Essays and Lectures, by Charles Kingsley
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Title: Scientific Essays and Lectures Author: Charles Kingsley Release Date: December 9, 2003 Language: English Character set encoding: US-ASCII [eBook #10427]
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Scientific Lectures and Essays
Contents: {0} On Bio-Geology The Study of Natural History Superstition Science Thoughts in a Gravel-Pit How to Study Natural History The Natural Theology of the Future
ON BIO-GEOLOGY {1}
I am not sure that the subject of my address is rightly chosen. I am not sure that I ought not to have postponed a question of mere natural history, to speak to you as scientific men, on the questions of life and death, which have been forced upon us by the awful warning of an illustrious personage’s illness; of preventible disease, its frightful prevalency; of the 200,000 persons who are said to have died of fever alone since the Prince Consort’s death, ten years ago; of the remedies; of drainage; of sewage disinfection and utilisation; and of the assistance which you, as ...