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History of cultivated vegetables; comprising their botanical, medicinal, edible, and chemical qualities; natural history; and relation to arts, science, and commerce / By Henry Phillips.

  • Henry Phillips
Date:
1822
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Credit: History of cultivated vegetables; comprising their botanical, medicinal, edible, and chemical qualities; natural history; and relation to arts, science, and commerce / By Henry Phillips. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Natural philosophy has never been itro- duced with success into any country until its inhabitants had made considerable progress in other arts. The Assyrians, Chaldeans, and Egyptians, had attained great proficiency in this science long before the existence of either the Greeks or Romans, who did not encourage it until they had learnt the art of war, and had in great measure become civi- lized by the very nations they had con- quered. In this kngdom, Lord Bacon was the first who cultivated natural philosophy; and it is from his torch that many excellent hghts have since been kindled. In the primitive times, when men were driven either by war, or a wandering disposi- tion, to form colonies in distant countries, they lived upon such fruits as sprang out of the earth without art or cultivation. At Argos they fed chiefly on pears, at Athens on figs, in Arcadia on acorns; but, as their numbers increased, it became necessary for them to cultivate vegetables for the subsist- ence of themselves and their cattle; and we find that in those early days the labours of the agriculturists were so duly appreciated, that the persons of the husbandmen and the
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