Essay III : Of food, and particularly of feeding the poor.

  • Benjamin Thompson
Date:
[between 1790 and 1799?]
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    [ *9^ ] essay III. INTRODUCTION, TT is a common faying, that neceflity is the mo- ther of invention; and nothing is more ftri^Uy or more generally true. It may even be Ihown, that moft of the fucceflive improvements in the affairs of men in a Hate of civil fociety, of which we have any authentic records, have been made under the preffure of neceffity ; and it is no fmall confola- tion, in times of general alarm, to reflet up>on the probability that, upon fuch occafions, ufcful dif* coveries will refult from the united exertions of thofe w ho, either from motives of fear, or fenti- ments of benevolence, labour to avert the impend- ing evil. The alarm in this country at the prefent period *, on account of the high price of corn, and the dan- ger of a fcarcity, has turned the attention of the Public to a very important fubjefl, the inveJUgatton of the fcience of nutrition ;—a fubje<fr fo curious in itfelf, and fo highly interefting to mankind, that it feems truly aftonifhing it (hould have been fo long neglefted :—but in the manner in which it is now taken up, both by the Houfe of Commons, and the Board of Agriculture, there is great reafon to * November 1795.
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