Introductory Lecture To The Course On Anatomy Delivered In The University Of Pennsylvania October 11th 1859

Author : D. Hayes Agnew
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781391423814
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book An Introductory Lecture Delivered in the Philadelphia School of Anatomy written by D. Hayes Agnew and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Introductory Lecture Delivered in the Philadelphia School of Anatomy: October 17th, 1859 It required many thousands of years for the inventive faculty of man to exchange the sickle, which at each circling sweep felled but a hand-grasp, for the gigantic reaper before whose thundering march the nodding grain is levelled as by a tornado's breath. It was by slow and almost imperceptible degrees, although its me tallic relations had long been known, that the fire of heaven was trained to fly to the remote bounds of the earth and articulate the thoughts of men. It was a long and arduous task, although mankind was familiar with both the elasticity of aqueous vapor and the philosophy of the lever, before they were SO combined and utilized as to navigate our rivers, traverse the ocean, impel the loom, rush like comets over our iron ways, dragging in a single train a colony, or an army, larger than those which Phoe nicia planted, or by which Cortes conquered, ploughing the earth, draining our mines, wielding the press, blowing the flames of the furnace, or drowning out the fires which consume a city. It was a period of considerable duration which marked the interval when men embodied their crude religious conceptions in images of wood and stone, and those superb triumphs of genius which adorn the depositories of Roman and Florentine art. And so we might continue to gather illustrations from every field of science or art, all conspiring to Show that true knowledge, though Simple in itself, is reached with difficulty, from the imperfection of the instruments with which we operate. 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.