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What is Thermodynamics about?
that before half of that crop can be gathered into your barns the predicted hail-storm will be upon you? As nearly as I can see, he who should perfectly foreknow the weather would find himself at every step confronted by some approaching dilemma, some inevitable disappointment or loss; and shrinking, as we all do, from such events, he would sit down in despair and do nothing at all. In a general way, it is true of the weather, as of anything else, that an All-Merciful Father hides the future from us so that we, in our ignorance and helplessness, may labor on, full of hope that things may not turn out so bad after all. And yet, so confident am I of the great future development of man and of science, and so clearly do I see the wise provision by which everywhere in Nature we find the right thing, in the right place, at the right time, that I dare predict to-night the time will come when men shall be able to endure and utilize detailed weather predictions for months and years in advance ; and when that time comes the prophe t and his predictions will be on hand. THERMODYNAMICS.
Who reads Thermodynamics?
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- Author
- De Volson Wood
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0016-0032)
- Published
- 1887
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Engineering (Physical Sciences)