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  • 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.

    Humphry Davy (1840). “The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy (etc.)”, p.358