. The new eclectic history of the United States . diedthan ever before. No large town is without its supply of water,the purest that can be obtained from rivers or lakes, or even, insome regions, from artesian wells. Americans have alwaysbeen prompt in applying sanitary science to home-life, and inall sorts of efforts to lessen the suffering and danger of theweak and helpless. Among these efforts are societies for theprotection of children, for the prevention of cruelty to animals,etc. We live in a more humane age than ourfathers. Medical science has learned to sus-pend the consciousness of a
. The new eclectic history of the United States . diedthan ever before. No large town is without its supply of water,the purest that can be obtained from rivers or lakes, or even, insome regions, from artesian wells. Americans have alwaysbeen prompt in applying sanitary science to home-life, and inall sorts of efforts to lessen the suffering and danger of theweak and helpless. Among these efforts are societies for theprotection of children, for the prevention of cruelty to animals,etc. We live in a more humane age than ourfathers. Medical science has learned to sus-pend the consciousness of a patient whileoperations, otherwise painful, are performed;and so an amount of suffering that no onecan measure has been prevented. 662. The progress of science has been aidedby new or greatly improved instruments. Themicroscope has opened the way to discoveries in Louis , physiology, and the nature of diseases. Some of thegrandest telescopes in the world have been made by AlvahClark, of Cambridge, Mass. The spectroscope has told us. 386 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. what the sun and stars are made of. Photography, thoughscarcely forty years old, serves many useful purposes in scienceas well as the arts. Americans have always had their share inthe advancement of science (^205, 206). Count Rumford, anative of Concord, N. H., first discovered the mechanicalequivalent of heat, and so led the way to the most importantdiscoveries in physics. On the other hand, the peace andfreedom to be enjoyed in this country have drawn to our shoressome of the most learned and cultured men of Europe. Suchwere Louis Agassiz, the Swiss naturalist; Arnold Cuyot; Fran-cis Lieber of Columbia College, New York, and many Federal government has made liberal grants in aid ofvoyages and researches in the interest of science. The Smith-sonian Institution (see engraving at the head of this chapter)uses for the same ends the income derived from the bequestof James Smithson, the son of a
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