Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our … - Humphry Davy

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Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless.

Humphry Davy

Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by experiments, in which the agents concerned are placed under new circumstances, and their diversified properties separately examined. The body of natural science, then, consists of facts; is analogy,-the relation of resemblance of facts by which its different parts are connected, arranged, and employed, either for popular use, or for new speculative improvements.

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