Decline of Science in England, Charles Babbage [best ereader for comics txt] 📗

gement to the veryvaluable Journals of Poggendorff and Schweigger. Lessexclusively national than their Gallic compeer, they present apicture of the actual progress of physical science throughoutEurope. Indeed, we have been often astonished to see with whatcelerity every thing, even moderately valuable in the scientificpublications of this country, finds its way into their pages.This ought to encourage our men of science. They have a largeraudience, and a wider sympathy than they are perhaps aware of;and however disheartening the general diffusion of smatterings ofa number of subjects, and the almost equally general indifferenceto profound knowledge in any, among their own countrymen, may be,they may rest assured that not a fact they may discover, nor agood experiment they may make, but is instantly repeated,verified, and commented upon, in Germany, and, we may add too, inItaly. We wish the obligation were mutual. Here, whole branchesof continental discovery are unstudied, and indeed almos