Excerpt from Science Byways: A Series of Familiar Dissertations on Life in Other Worlds, Comets and the Sun, The North Pole, Rain, Danger From Lightning, Growth and Decay of Mind, The Brain and Mental Feats, Automata, &C,

Some also imagine that there may be a tendency to sensationalism in popular works on science. But the writer who is familiar with the true nature of modern scientific researches needs no help of that kind. He must indeed be a man of dull and heavy mind under whose pen the marvels of modern science become unattractive. The real lover of science should indeed be ashamed to attempt fine writing, even as one who desired to exhibit the real beauties of a noble work of art should be ashamed to deck it with gaudy ornaments.

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