Decline of Science in England
Decline of Science in England
and on Some of Its Causes
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gement to the very
valuable Journals of Poggendorff and Schweigger. Less
exclusively national than their Gallic compeer, they present a
picture of the actual progress of physical science throughout
Europe. Indeed, we have been often astonished to see with what
celerity every thing, even moderately valuable in the scientific
publications of this country, finds its way into their pages.
This ought to encourage our men of science. They have a larger
audience, and a wider sympathy than they are perhaps aware of;
and however disheartening the general diffusion of smatterings of
a number of subjects, and the almost equally general indifference
to profound knowledge in any, among their own countrymen, may be,
they may rest assured that not a fact they may discover, nor a
good experiment they may make, but is instantly repeated,
verified, and commented upon, in Germany, and, we may add too, in
Italy. We wish the obligation were mutual. Here, whole branches
of continental discovery are unstudied, and indeed almos
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