The causes of this progress are many and obvious
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The causes of this progress are many and obvious
ustrysale Fri Jun 03, 2011 3:56 am
The causes of this progress are many and obvious
The causes of this progress are many and obvious; but we cannot help thinking that the beautiful plates, and the enthusiastic writings, of Wilson, Buonaparte, and Audubon, as well as the valuable public museums in most of our large cities, have done much to promote and force it on{. They have, as it were, forcibly turned the attention of the public to the subject, and laid open to them the stores of happiness and pleasure contained in such pursuits; by intimately mixing in their amusements, they have torn from the face of science the mask of mystery and difficulty with which it was and, perhaps, in some parts, still is, unfortunately shrouded; and, by making it familiar, have Tory Burch Outlet caused it to be admired and cultivated. But notwithstanding this, natural science has not yet been sufficiently brought home to the everyday feelings and occupations of men. It is still looked upon as a thing apart, not as a thing connected with our education, with our pleasures, or our luxuries; and the knowledge of it, The " Library Catalogue " considering all the circumstances which preceded it, is unique. We shall probably return to this again, and that with no unbecoming " levity," but in unlne® the moat decorous. We dare not promise so much with regard to the Introduction. In several attempts we have made to read it, we have found it® risible power irresistible. f From Silliman's Journal. It may be necessary to explain to foreigners, tliat these museums, besides being open daily to visiters, on payment of a small sum, are generally used as exhibition rooms for ventriloquists, jugglers, fat men,hoe genus omne.instead of being an assistance in our business, is considered by too many as only an Innderance to it. Professional writers on the subject hare, perhaps, rather nourished than helped to dissipate this prejudice: absorbed in the technical and more scientific parts of the subject, they have neglected to show its connexion with the arts, and they have either overlooked entirely, or kept in the background, the application of this knowledge. Natural history is a true science, as are all its branches: and as such, they are the parents and fosterers of the arts.
The causes of this progress are many and obvious; but we cannot help thinking that the beautiful plates, and the enthusiastic writings, of Wilson, Buonaparte, and Audubon, as well as the valuable public museums in most of our large cities, have done much to promote and force it on{. They have, as it were, forcibly turned the attention of the public to the subject, and laid open to them the stores of happiness and pleasure contained in such pursuits; by intimately mixing in their amusements, they have torn from the face of science the mask of mystery and difficulty with which it was and, perhaps, in some parts, still is, unfortunately shrouded; and, by making it familiar, have Tory Burch Outlet caused it to be admired and cultivated. But notwithstanding this, natural science has not yet been sufficiently brought home to the everyday feelings and occupations of men. It is still looked upon as a thing apart, not as a thing connected with our education, with our pleasures, or our luxuries; and the knowledge of it, The " Library Catalogue " considering all the circumstances which preceded it, is unique. We shall probably return to this again, and that with no unbecoming " levity," but in unlne® the moat decorous. We dare not promise so much with regard to the Introduction. In several attempts we have made to read it, we have found it® risible power irresistible. f From Silliman's Journal. It may be necessary to explain to foreigners, tliat these museums, besides being open daily to visiters, on payment of a small sum, are generally used as exhibition rooms for ventriloquists, jugglers, fat men,hoe genus omne.instead of being an assistance in our business, is considered by too many as only an Innderance to it. Professional writers on the subject hare, perhaps, rather nourished than helped to dissipate this prejudice: absorbed in the technical and more scientific parts of the subject, they have neglected to show its connexion with the arts, and they have either overlooked entirely, or kept in the background, the application of this knowledge. Natural history is a true science, as are all its branches: and as such, they are the parents and fosterers of the arts.
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