Ribblesdale Place, Preston - 'Will you condescend to answer the enquiries of one of the million? of one of the multitude of ordinary people who have just education enough to find pleasure in reading what are called 'popular' works on scientific subjects'.… read more
Ribblesdale Place, Preston - 'Will you condescend to answer the enquiries of one of the million? of one of the multitude of ordinary people who have just education enough to find pleasure in reading what are called 'popular' works on scientific subjects'. MFL wants technical answers (made intelligible) to such things as the nebular hypothesis as discussed by WW in his Bridgwater treatise. He also wants to know whether Isaac Newton was a Unitarian?, since it is such a common view among them: 'they see no difference between Newton and Voltaire and Laplace (not that they know any more than their names) and class them altogether as a set of clever learned infidels'.
