An essay on the method of studying natural history, being an oration delivered to the Societas Naturae Studiosorum, at Edinburgh, in the year 1782 / [Richard Kentish].

  • Kentish, Richard, 1730-1792.
Date:
1787
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Credit: An essay on the method of studying natural history, being an oration delivered to the Societas Naturae Studiosorum, at Edinburgh, in the year 1782 / [Richard Kentish]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of my hearers as are already advanced far on the fcale of fcience, will I trull pardon the liberty I take in addreffing myfelf to the younger Members of this Society. To them I would obferve that Natural Hiftory now makes a part of polite education, and the man who is ignorant of it will frequently be de¬ prived of one of the greatefl fources of felf-amufement. It would be no difficult matter to fiiew the utility, fublimity and im¬ portance of that fcience which vin¬ dicates the ways of God to man,’’ but I trull that none of my hearers will Hand in need of arguments or logical reafoning, to convince them of the rank which the ftudy of nature holds amongft the fciences. Every branch of natural Hiftory is now be¬ come an important part of literature, it is cultivated by the liigheft orders of fociety, even Princes themfelves have laboured in the extenfive field which