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Excerpt from On the Improvement of Society by the Ffusion of Knowledge: Or, an Illustration of the Advantages Which Would Result From a More General Dissemination of Rational and Scientific Information Among All Ranks
Pleasures of sense and of intellect, 81. The enjoyments of the Ignorant, and of the man of intelligence contrasted, and particularly illustrated, 82 87 Pleasure annexed to the gratification of the principle of curiosity, 88. Scientific facts illustrative of this subject - Number of effects produced by a single principle in nature, 88. Surprising resemblances in operations where we should least of all have expected them, 90. Grand and sublime objects which science presents before us, 91. Variety of novel and interesting objects it exhibits, 94. Illustrated from mechanics, hydrostatics, magnetism, Optics, chemistry, 8m. 95. Instruments connected with optics, 95. Figure of the Aerial Telescope, 96. Pleasure in tracing the ste s by which discoveries have been made, and the experiments by which t ey are illustrated, 99 103. Beneficial tendency of scientific pursuits on the heart, and on social and domestic enjoyment - miscellaneous re?ections and remarks, 103 - 109.
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