PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

THE POETRY OF SCIENCE.

CHAPTER I.

CHAPTER II.

CHAPTER III.

CHAPTER IV.

CHAPTER V.

CHAPTER VI.

CHAPTER VII.

CHAPTER VIII.

CHAPTER IX.

CHAPTER X.

CHAPTER XI.

CHAPTER XII.

CHAPTER XIII.

CHAPTER XIV.

CHAPTER XV.

CHAPTER XVI.

INDEX.

BOHN'S BOOKS. BOHN'S STANDARD LIBRARY.

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE.

OR,

STUDIES

OF THE

PHYSICAL PHENOMENA OF NATURE.

BY

ROBERT HUNT,

AUTHOR OF

“RESEARCHES ON LIGHT;” “ELEMENTARY PHYSICS;” “PANTHEA, OR THE SPIRIT OF NATURE,” ETC.

PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS, METROPOLITAN SCHOOL OF SCIENCE, ETC., ETC.

THIRD EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED.

LONDON:

HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

MDCCCLIV.

From Shakespeare to Plato—from the philosophic poet to the poetic philosopher—the transition is easy, and the road is crowded with illustrations of our present subject.

Hast thou ever raised thy mind to the consideration of existence, in and by itself, as the mere act of existing?

Hast thou ever said to thyself, thoughtfully, It is!—heedless, in that moment, whether it were a man before thee, or a flower, or a grain of sand,—without reference, in short, to this or that particular mode or form of existence? If thou hast, indeed, attained to this, thou wilt have felt the presence of a mystery, which must have fixed thy spirit in awe and wonder.

Coleridge.

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