Pichincha, Extracts From a Discourse
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Excerpt from Pichincha, Extracts From a Discourse: Delivered in the Chapel of Racine College, During the Week of Commencement, in July From the days of Pliny and Strabo, (A.D. 79,)to those of Sir Humphrey Davy, Von Humboldt, and Agassiz, of the present century, much learning has been displayed, and many graphic pens employed, in elucidating the arcana of Volcanoes. The profound investigations, and the elaborate experiments of savans, in relation to the orological characteristics of these phenomena, have become familiar to scholars accustomed to scientific research. But admonished by the fate of the elder Pliny, the ardor of whose philosophic mind drew him into so perilous a proximity to Vesuvius, at the period of its first disastrous eruption of which history affords us any circumstantial account, that his life was the forfeit of his peering curiosity, - very few of the devotees of science, during the last seventeen or eighteen centuries, seem to have been tempted to take the hazard of similar risks, by emboweling themselves in volcanic craters, either for the disinterested purpose of enlarging the field of scientific discovery, or for satisfying their own thirst after that knowledge which is said to "dwell in heads replete with the thoughts of other men." But my friend Dr. Moreno, of the Equator, who is not of the speculative sect of philosophers, is never satisfied with merely deductive results, but is ever intent on practical demonstrations of new truths in physical science. And it appears from the memoir I hold in my hand, that this was the third time the Doctor had adventured into the depths of the crater of "Pichincha." Undaunted by the perils previously encountered, he contemplated a fourth descent at no distant period of time, for the purpose of completing his projected course of experiments in the geology, mineralogy, gasometry, etc. of the lowest depths of volcanic craters. But, unfortunately for the cause of scientific research, the consummation of this laudable purpose was cut short, and indefinitely delayed, by a series of extraordinary political events in Ecuador, inaugurated in 1859, which seem to have paralyzed all similar enterprizes in that country for the time being, as will appear in the sequel of this discourse. Gabriel Garcia Moreno, S. D., and LL.D., is a native of Guayaquil, the Commercial mart of the Equator. He was educated in the Colleges of that Republic, and attained high literary honors at his graduation in the University of Quito. Having passed through the fullest course of scholastic education attainable in his own country, he early manifested a taste for the natural sciences, and devoted much of his time to study and research in those departments of learning. But eventually his mind became imbued with a taste for polemics; and an aptness for controversal writing soon involved him in the political discussions of the day, which, in that country, acquire a peculiar acerbity from the frequency of "pronunciamentos," (governmental revolutions,) through the agency of which impromptu changes of administration are so often effected there. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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