A popular history of British sea-weeds ... with notices of some of the fresh-water Algae / By the Rev. D. Landsborough.
- David Landsborough
- Date:
- 1849
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A popular history of British sea-weeds ... with notices of some of the fresh-water Algae / By the Rev. D. Landsborough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![After all that lias been said of the uses of Sea-weeds in agriculture, in medicine, in culinary purposes, in the fine arts, and in various manufactures, I would recommend the study of this department of natural science to my young friends, chiefly on account of the intellectual pleasure it will yield them, and because of its tendency to cherish devotional sentiments in their hearts. “ There is something positively agreeable,” says Lord Brougham, “ in gaining knowledge for its own sake. There is also a pleasure in seeing the uses to which knowledge may be applied.—It is another gratification to extend our enquiries, and find that the instrument or animal is useful to man, even though we have no chance ourselves] of ever benefiting by the information.” “But how much more vivid,” subjoins Mr. Paterson of Belfast, “this emotion becomes, wheu we have the pleasure of seeing the beneficial effects of one animal or plant in giving employment to thousands, and mutiplying the comforts of the whole civilized world. Is it needful to adduce, as an example, the silk- worm or the cotton-plant ? ” Great also is the pleasure hi studying the physiology of plants, in watching their growth, in examining them structure, in observing the evidences of design in the adaptation of one part to another, and the arrangement of means to an end.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22024815_0104.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
