Excerpt from Aspects of Nature, in Different Lands and Different Climates: With Scientific Elucidations

In my eightieth year, I am still enabled to enjoy the satisfaction of completing a third edition of my work, remoulding it entirely afresh to_ meet the requirements of the present time. Almost all the scientific Elucidations or Annotations have been either enlarged or replaced by new and more comprehensive ones. I have' hoped that these volumes might tend to inspire and cherish a love for the study of Nature, by bringing together in a small space the results of careful observation on the most varied subjects, by showing the importance of exact numerical data, and the use to be made of them by well-considered arrangement and comparison, and by opposing the dogmatic half-knowledge and arrogant skepticism which have long too much prevailed in what are called the higher circles of society.

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