... and Observations onDifferent Kinds of Air, of the study of nature and experimental phil-osophy to the prince of Wales, and to men of fortune and leisure,as the surest means of enlarging their ... that a work of this kind,capable of representing in one point of view the intellectual pursuits of several nations, and of an in nite number of individuals in every age;able to connect the scientific ... surprize the thinking mind than the little attention which is paid in thiscountry to the morals of the profligate and the poor’ (7 (1790):438). Noting that ‘to excite the spirit of industry, and...