Experiments on organic manures, 1942–49

Abstract

… In short, he used many learned arguments to persuade his audience out of their senses; and from stench made a transition to filth, which he affirmed was also a mistaken idea, in as much as objects so called, were no other than certain modifications of matter, consisting of the same principles that enter into the composition of all created essences, whatever they may be: that in the filthiest production of nature a philosopher considered nothing but the earth, water, salt and air of which it was compounded.…