Directions for insuring personal safety during storms of thunder and lightning, and for the right application of conductors to houses and other buildings / [John Leigh].

  • Leigh, John, Esq., Jnr.
Date:
[1835?]
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Credit: Directions for insuring personal safety during storms of thunder and lightning, and for the right application of conductors to houses and other buildings / [John Leigh]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    philosophy3 exclaim ; “ Confidingmtheprofcection of providence, and unable to avert God’s dispensa¬ tions, I am under all circumstances equally se» cure.” It is enough to answer, that a wanton expo¬ sure of life, is not only unwarranted, but expressly forbidden. Due regard to the ordinary means of self-preservation is a duty; and when science, in the progress of civilized life, offers increased securities, their rejection is criminal. In spite of all human prudence can suggest, or ingenuity devise, life still remains sufficiently precarious ; and no man under wanton exposure to danger, is justified in the expectation of a special exertion of God’s providence in his behalf. The identity of lightning with the fluid pro¬ duced bv means of an electrical machine has been m long established, and forms the ground-work of our knowledge of the former element. The similarity is perfect in every respect except that of quantity : but though, by our artificial method of collecting electricity, we can only make expe-
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