The Invention of Air by Johnson Steven

Author:Johnson, Steven [Johnson, Steven]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Biography
ISBN: 9781594488528
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Goodreads: 3688884
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
Published: 2008-12-26T00:00:00+00:00

Franklin the satirist appears next: “A virtuous Action it would be, and a vicious one the killing of them, if the Species were really worth producing or preserving; but of this I begin to doubt.” Mindful of his much more magnanimous reader, he artfully draws the argument back to Priestley’s ministry and his experiments, with a dark twist of the knife at the end, borrowed from Swift:

I know you have no such Doubts, because in your Zeal for their Welfare, you are taking a great deal of Pains to save their Souls. Perhaps as you grow older you may look upon this as a hopeless Project, or an idle Amusement, repent of having murdered in mephitic Air so many honest harmless Mice, and wish that to prevent Mischief you had used Boys and Girls instead of them.

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