A Notice of the Origin, Progress, and Progress Condition
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Excerpt from A Notice of the Origin, Progress, and Progress Condition: Of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia The proclivities of the present age are eminently utilitarian. Before engaging in any pursuit, men wish to know in what it can profit them. Immediate and direct gain is an object of common desire; hence, those vocations which promise a speedy compensation for labor are most popular, and the paths travelled by those who have been fortunate in pursuit of wealth are most eagerly sought. Agriculture, the mechanic arts, and commerce, which supply the wants, the comforts, and luxuries of man, employ the great masses of society. A love of wealth is a stronger incentive to toil than benevolence; the fame which inures to a labor unproductive of palpable remuneration stimulates but few. Those branches of learning and philosophy which facilitate the acquisition of wealth, attract a larger number of diligent votaries than those which advantageously influence the condition of society, without adding to the pecuniary profit of those who pursue them. The utility, the beneficial influence, which natural history exercises on the common interests of society is not commonly understood, and, for this reason, the labors of naturalists are not very generally appreciated. Indeed, a vague meaning seems to be attached to the terms "natural history," and "natural sciences." Unless men comprehend the meaning of these names they cannot perceive the utility of, or set a value upon what they are used to designate. Science and knowledge are not synonymous; there may be knowledge without science. 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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