Excerpt from The Modern Practice of Photography

Probably no modern science or art can boast of so many roads to success, as that which owns itself the servant of the sun. It is easy to understand why this should be so, for all things, animate and inanimate, are affected by the sun, which at the same moment gives us both light and life, and is a fertile source of chemical decomposition. It becomes, therefore, evident that the slightest investigation, the mere cursory examination of the many valuable storehouses of knowledge, is sufficient for developing that which at first sight appears new, but which, in reality, is only proof of the statement above made, that all bodies are more or less acted upon, and changed by the agency of light.

Hence the innumerable processes in photography, which spring up daily, giving constant occupation and food to the experimentalist, engaging earnestly his attention, and so absorbing his interest by a success more or less certain, as to make the pursuit of this art, probably the most fascinating, the most exciting, and the most productive of results of any followed by the intelligent and intellectual classes of the present day.

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