When we begin the study of any science, we are in a situation, respecting that science, similar to that of children; and the course by which we have to advance is precisely the same which nature follow in the formation of their ideas.


In: Great Books of the Western World (Volume 45), Elements of Chemistry, Preface (p. 1)


When we begin the study of any science, we are in a situation, respecting that science, similar to that of children; and the course by which we have...

When we begin the study of any science, we are in a situation, respecting that science, similar to that of children; and the course by which we have...

When we begin the study of any science, we are in a situation, respecting that science, similar to that of children; and the course by which we have...

When we begin the study of any science, we are in a situation, respecting that science, similar to that of children; and the course by which we have...