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Title: Priestley in America
Author : Edgar Fahs Smith
Release Date : January 01, 1928
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 85 KB

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The writer, in studying the lives of early American chemists, encountered the name of Joseph Priestley so frequently, that he concluded to institute a search with the view of learning as much as possible of the life and activities, during his exile in this country, of the man whom chemists everywhere deeply revere. Priestley was a man of strong human sympathies. He loved to mingle with men and exchange thoughts. Furthermore, Priestley was a minister—a preacher. He was ordained while at Warrington, and gloried in the fact that he was a[Pg 4] Dissenting Minister.