Volume 2

The dancing mania / From the German of J.F.C. Hecker ; translated by B.G. Babington.

  • Justus Friedrich Carl Hecker
Date:
1833-1835
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The dancing mania / From the German of J.F.C. Hecker ; translated by B.G. Babington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    perhaps more intellectual than the science of the Geologist, who, on his side, possesses the advantage of treating on subjects which strike the senses, and are therefore more attractive, —such as the impressions of plants no longer extant, and the skeletons of lost races of animals. This, ‘however, does not entirely exculpate us from the charge of neglecting our science, in a quarter where the most important facts are to be unveiled. It is high time to make up for what has been left unaccom- plished, if we would not remain idle and mean-spirited in the rear of other natu- ralists. I was animated by these and similar re- flections, and excited too by passing events, _ when I undertook to write the history of the “Black Death.” With some anxiety, I sent this book into the world, for it was scarcely to be expected that it would be every where received with indulgence, since it belonged to an hitherto unknown department of historical research, the utility a 2