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Excerpt from Descriptive Essays, Vol. 2 of 2: Contributed to the Quarterly Review
Before, however, we enter upon the first important chapter, we cannot refrain from observing how little the subject to which it particularly relates - namely, the purification by science of the air we breathe - has hitherto been deemed worthy of consideration.
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