Category: History - Other
“Science should be stripped of every thing that tends to clothe it in a strange and repulsive garb, and especially every thing that, to keep up an appearance of superiority in its professors over the rest of mankind, assumes an unnecessary guise of profundity and obscurity, sh...
“Science should be stripped of every thing that tends to clothe it in a strange and repulsive garb, and especially every thing that, to keep up an appearance of superiority in i...
10. CHAPTER II.The eyes, when in a sound and healthy state, instinctively adjust themselves at a distance of twelve inches from a book or paper, when they are observing the same. This distance...
11. CHAPTER III.“Every day’s observation shews how far some men may be carried from the most evident and obvious truths, to support a new hypothesis, which has no foundation either in nature or...
12. CHAPTER IV.I shall give a few instances of the manner in which advertising adventurers rack their ingenuity to dress up their announcements in the most catching and attractive style; and,...
13. CHAPTER V.Some instances which have come under my own cognizance will illustrate the way in which gross imposition is practised, and the public morals materially injured, by weakening con...
14. CHAPTER VI.“See, arm’d with great authority, they come, And with great names and numbers strike us dumb; Reason and common sense to names must fall, And strength of argument’s no strength...
15. CHAPTER VII.“It is a strange thing to behold what gross errors and extreme absurdities men do commit for want of a friend to tell them of the same! The help of good counsel is that which se...
16. CHAPTER VIII.In the early part of the present year I addressed letters to several gentlemen who figure in the list of patrons to the advertising Spectacle quacks, and enclosed a copy of the...