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Excerpt from The New-England Journal of Medicine and Surgery, and Collateral Branches of Science, 1817, Vol. 6: Conducted by a Number of Physicians
'chemistry, then, is a science of experiment, and its object is to discover the elements and the relations of bodies. When it'is recollected how many distinguished men are now engag ed in these pursuits; with what zeal they advance through new, and hitherto untrodden, paths with what delicacy and precision they operate, and with what discoveries their labours have been already rewarded, it must be acknowledged that, although rapidly progressive, no limits can be assigned to this scienc'e. In proportion as the instruments, with which they operate, are increased in power or improved in construction; and in proportion as the habits of accurate observation and of cautious reasoning are cultivated, new elements will be discovered, or those, which were once regarded as simple, will.
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