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The food of the Gods and how it came to earth

The food of the Gods and how it came to earth

Ballin, G-Ph
Wells, H. G.

Paperback

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Science

ISBN10: 154272595X
ISBN13: 9781542725958
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 23 2017
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Extract: THE DISCOVERY OF THE FOOD. I. In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called-Scientists. They dislike that word so much that from the columns of Nature, which was from the first their distinctive and characteristic paper, it is as carefully excluded as if it were-that other word which is the basis of all really bad language in this country. But the Great Public and its Press know better, and Scientists they are, and when they emerge to any sort of publicity, distinguished scientists and eminent scientists and well-known scientists is the very least we call them. Certainly both Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood quite merited any of these terms long before they came upon the marvellous discovery of which this story tells. Mr. Bensington was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a former president of the Chemical Society, and Professor Redwood was Professor of Physiology in the Bond Street College of the London University, and he had been grossly libelled by the anti-vivisectionists time after time. And they had led lives of academic distinction from their very earliest youth........

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