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Title: Scientific Essays and Lectures
Author: Charles Kingsley
Release Date: December 9, 2003 [eBook #10427]
Language: English
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Scientific Lectures and Essays
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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 a body of
scientific men, can give to any effort towards saving the lives and
health of our fellow-citizens from those unseen poisons which lurk
like wild beasts couched in the jungle, ready to spring at any
moment on the unsuspecting, the innocent, the helpless.
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