The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy ...: Bakerian lectures and miscellaneous papers from 1806 to 1815

Science is Connected to Prosperity

The progression of physical science is much more connected with your prosperity than is usually imagined. You owe to experimental philosophy some of the most important and peculiar of your advantages. It is not by foreign conquests chiefly that you are become great, but by a conquest of nature in your own country.

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• prosperity
• science