Elements of physiophilosophy / By Lorenz Oken ... From the German by Alfred Tulk.

  • Lorenz Oken
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1847
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Credit: Elements of physiophilosophy / By Lorenz Oken ... From the German by Alfred Tulk. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the author himself, and acknowledging what the present time with its accumulating mass of knowledge presses upon us more and more—the necessity of work, wherein abstract science and ex- perience, theory and facts shall advance together, the Ideal in part receiving and reflecting back wtih increased lustre the light which it has derived from the Real or outward semblance of things. Meanwhile, it is with no small amount of diffidence and hesitation that the present Translation will quit my hands. Hemmed in by a rigid dialectic terminology upon all sides, I have had difficulties of no ordinary kind to contend with in adapting a language, composed of such varied elements as our own, to meet the requisites of general clearness and conciseness that form so prominent a feature of the German work. If errors and obscurities exist, the blame, it will be observed, attaches to myself, not to the distinguished author. [ll-heath has conflicted much with the calmness and repose of mind so indispensable to an undertaking, at once novel in kind and character to the English reader; or otherwise, these (my last labours unto any extent as a Translator) might have been rendered more worthy of the Ray Society and the objects it has in view. To those who have kindly afforded me assistance in the progress of the work, and to the latter body for undertaking it, I here return many grateful thanks. ‘The Author himself in a letter to the Trans- lator, dated Jan. 12, 1847, acknowledges the acceptance of his work by the Society in the following words :—‘“‘ The intelligence of my Physiophilosophy having been deemed worthy of translation by so goodly and enlightened a Society, cannot be otherwise unto me than a source of delight.’’* ALFRED TULK. * “Die Nachricht dass meine Naturphilosophie von einer sociferigen und erleuchteten Gesellschaft der Uebersetzung fir wiirdig erachtet worden ist, konnte nicht anders als mir Freude gewahren.”
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