From Natural Philosophy have flowed all those great inventions by means of which mankind in general is able to subsist with more ease, and in greater numbers upon the face of the earth. Hence arise the capital advantages of men above brutes, and of civilization above barbarity.
The History and Present State of Electricity: With Original Experiments, (Volume 1) (p. XXI), Printed for C. Bathurst & T. Lowndes. 1775