Excerpt from Chemical Essays: Principally Relating to the Arts and Manufactures of the British Dominions
Nothing can be of more importance to the people of a manufacturing country than the cultivation of a taste for philosophical and chemical inquiries. Manufactories cannot be conducted without the employment of a variety of artificial as well as natural productions, and it behoves the workmen as well as their employers, to become acquainted with the intimate nature and properties of the respective materials on which they have occasion to operate.
To enable such persons to pursue these investigations with advantage, it is requisite that they should not only possess a knowledge of the elements of chemical science, but acquire also a constant habit of observing the effects which different bodies produce upon each other, and hence learn to understand the causes of the various appearances which take place in the several operations that come under their own daily observation or particular superintendence.
To promote this desirable end, nothing would perhaps be so effectual as the dissemination of several distinct and familiar treatises on the most important manufactures of the country, and on the nature of the materials employed in them. The Essays of Bergman, Scheele, and Watson, are of this nature; and these have contributed in no small degree to the information of the public mind, and to that growing taste for chemical pursuits which is one of the characteristics of the present age.
The subjects on which these eminent Essayists have so ably written, are, however, comparatively few, and much remains to be done before an inquirer into the nature and extent of the British manufactures can obtain solid and sufficient information respecting the staple products of the country.
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