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Excerpt from Researches About Atmospheric Phaenomena
Among the many erroneous views which pe0p1e 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 phaenomena capable of exciting us to the pursuit of their causes, on account of the pleasure they produced in engaging the ener gies of' our different intellectual faculties, in dependently of any further purpose to which they might be made subservient. Some ima gined object of utility, for the attainment of which people consider the different sciences as valuable, has generally been supposed to b. The cause which has impelled mankind to fol.
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