FAMILIAR LETTERS ON CHEMISTRY, IN ITS RELATIONS TO PHYSIOLOGY, DIETETICS, AGRICULTURE, COMMERCE, TAYLOR, WALTON, & MABERLY, UPPER GOWER STREET, AND IVY LANE, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1851. ΤΟ SIR JAMES CLARK, BART., M.D., F.R.S. PHYSICIAN TO THE QUEEN AND HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS MY DEAR SIR JAMES, A MINISTER of the British Crown, in addressing the House of Commons, described the social state of your country in the following terms:-"We have shown the example of a nation, in which every class of society accepts with cheerfulness the lot which Providence has assigned to it; while at the same time every individual of each class is constantly striving to raise himself in the social scale,—not by injustice and wrong, not by violence and illegality; but by persevering good conduct, and by the steady and energetic exertion of the moral and intellectual faculties, with which his Creator has endowed him."* These words must have filled the heart of every Briton with feelings of pride, and with confidence in their Government. You, too, my dear Sir James, are one of those men who, impressed with a strong feeling of what is required for the progressive improvement of society, devote their powers to the welfare of their country. By your * Lord Palmerston's Speech, June 25th, 1850. |