Proposals for opening by subscription, a botanic garden, to be called the London Botanic Garden : designed for the use of the physician, the apothecary, the student in physic, ... / By William Curtis.

  • Curtis, William, 1746-1799.
Date:
1778
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Credit: Proposals for opening by subscription, a botanic garden, to be called the London Botanic Garden : designed for the use of the physician, the apothecary, the student in physic, ... / By William Curtis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    - | PROPOSALS, &c. T T muft be allowed, that all human knowled ought to be fubfervient to the good of fociet1 and in proportion as this is advanced by any fcienc fo ought that fcience to be held in efleem. * Providence in his unerring wifdom, having a lotted to mankind different capacities, and implan ed in them propenfities to particular purfuits, that what is matter of the greatefl fatisfa&ion to on fhall be perfe£lly infipid to another, it is no wond that they fhould differ fo widely in the apprehends utility of their refpe&ive employments ; each, froi a principle of felf love, being willing to think h own of the greatefl importance : and fo flrongly this idea impreffed on the minds of fome, as to ht tray them into a narrownefs of thinking, inconfifl ent with that liberality of fentiment, which woul excite a wifh for the univerfal increafe of fciencc when connedled, even in the remotefl degree, wit the interefls of mankind.