A new system of practical domestic economy.

Date:
1823
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Credit: A new system of practical domestic economy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    at the name of philosophy in a didactic work, though pleased with it in a lecture-room; and why so ?—simply because, like freemasonry, it has too long been the fashion to make it both incom- prehensible and alarming. Let it be our task, then, to produce a familiar application of modern philosophy; or rather to dis- play the art of making philosophy useful: and, in order to do so, it has been our object to avail our- selves of all the most recent discoveries that can be applied to the improvement of human life. If it requires the power of nature to produce a fea- ther, we should not be ashamed to apply even the greatest of her forces, if necessary, in arranging that feather, and in making it useful or orna- mental, as may be required. In preparing this New Edition for the press the whole work has undergone a thorough revision, in which we have availed ourselves not only of the opinions of numerous judicious friends, but also of the hints, suggestions, and even censures of Periodical Criticism.
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