HISTORY
OF THE
INDUCTIVE SCIENCES.

VOLUME II.

BOOK VIII.

THE SECONDARY MECHANICAL SCIENCES.

HISTORY OF ACOUSTICS.

. . . . . . Go, demand
Of mighty Nature, if ’twas ever meant
That we should pry far off and be unraised,
That we should pore, and dwindle as we pore,
Viewing all objects unremittingly
In disconnexion dead and spiritless;
And still dividing, and dividing still,
Break down all grandeur, still unsatisfied
With the perverse attempt, while littleness
May yet become more little; waging thus
An impious warfare ’gainst the very life
Of our own souls. Worsdworth, Excursion.