The subject matter of a course of six lectures on the non-metallic elements

"WHILST it is the peculiar attribute of astronomy to awaken our minds to an appreciation of those stupendous orbs which revolve in space, to waft us ideally into those far-off regions where the bright luminary of our system would pale into the feeble twinkling of some distant star, and this turbulent world of ours, if not lost altogether to our gaze, would fade into the misty streak of some faint galaxy-it is an attribute of chemistry to raise up within us sentiments of another kind."