. The Photographic art-journal . f his real knowledge, commensuratewith the energy of purpose devoted to hisresearch. To the common observer, thisearth we inhabit, and all the minerals com-posing it, present little else but a shapelessmass, devoid of all proportion and system,but to the student of chemistry, every ma-terial substance is invested with a new in-terest, knowing as he does that externallydevoid of beauty as it may be, internallyits elements are arranged and proportionedin accordance with fixed laws, and heldtogether by certain affinities or attractingforces, constant in their appl
. The Photographic art-journal . f his real knowledge, commensuratewith the energy of purpose devoted to hisresearch. To the common observer, thisearth we inhabit, and all the minerals com-posing it, present little else but a shapelessmass, devoid of all proportion and system,but to the student of chemistry, every ma-terial substance is invested with a new in-terest, knowing as he does that externallydevoid of beauty as it may be, internallyits elements are arranged and proportionedin accordance with fixed laws, and heldtogether by certain affinities or attractingforces, constant in their application, andmost benificent in their results. No. 3will treat of chemical affinities and alliedsubjects. When Cromwell sat to Lely, he said Idesire you will use all your skill to paintmy picture truly like me, and not flatterme at all; but remark all those roughness- es, pimples, warts, and everything as* yousee me ; otherwise 1 will not pay one far-*thing for it. 1853. The Photographic Art-Journal. 119 EXTRACTS FROM LA PHOTOGRAPHY PHYSIOLOGICALLY CONSID-ERED. ANY physiologists havearisen within a few classes of societyTom the porter to thediplornast, from the griz-ette to the great lady,have furnished to thepen more or less spiritualtraits for our observation. If thereis a class of men who have madephysioligists, it is is this class of men who havegiven rise to tbe thousand of French so-cieties and which have increased to a de-gree really fabulous. It is nearly 25 years since photographyWas born like a flower from the rays of thesun. Promethus of our age ravishedfrom the heavens some of its pure rays,and if he made the art what would it nothave been had he not died poor and un-known upon a rock, but in a humbleprovincial retreat. Then, another came,Nicephere Niepce, who took the infant,fostered it, elevated it, studied its strength,its aptitude of development, then presentedit to the world, and gave it his name; thenit grew and increased in
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