A Manual of Zoology (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Manual of Zoology John Hunter had lived and laboured: his vast ideas, his bril liant discoveries, his views, which seem more like inspirations than the natural result of an industry unsurpassed, lay buried in the hall of a corporate body with whom, as a surgeon, he was accidentally associated: but he had laboured in vain. His views he placed before the world in the form of a museum, to which none of the labours of men's hands can be compared - unless it be, and these no doubt excel, the handiwork of those who carved the Medicean Venus and the Belvidere Apollo. For never, I believe, at any period of its history, was Zoology in a lower condition in Britain than that in which I found it when, returning from France, in the summer of 1825, I submitted to a small but select class an outline of those great views which France and Germ any had taught me, and which I have continued to meditate and re¿ect on to the present day. Since that period the educa tional institutions of the country have become somewhat multiplied, perhaps improved. The pressure of continental Opinion has told on Britain, and ere long it is by no means improbable the sciences of simple Observation may be deemed, if not equal in importance to those great branches of human knowledge wrapped up in the study of numbers and of lite rature, at least esteemed useful, practically calculated to expand the intellect - the first object of all education. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.