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Caption: Booklet - Addresses from Inauguration of Noyes
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•I threatening 1 future of populations. An j , n . 1 pending evil i not < ded bj Ing Ite ex flf.„ or shutting cur i a to the sign of (U approacl It is our duty to € unine and appi the After this acute ol en r and far-^ J m , philosopher had utl I lb' e words ami published his first little book, atitled "Chemistry in its Application to Agri :!ture," which marks a new epoch in th history of this important branch of human industry, and AYiegeman and PoLsdorf had corroborated the theoretical views of the great master by furnishing the infallible experimental proof, that the mineral or ash constituents of plants were indispensable to vegetable growth, the intelligent farmers of Germany were eager to listen to Liebig's teaching and to profit by any light which the more accurate and rational ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ J t furnish. They had been educated in the school of experience, in which they learned that the closest attention, the most arduous labor ami the strictest economy were demanded to ex; t from their impoverished soils enough to sustain themselves and families. - n only this The views of Licbig ,re rapidly all over the civili | w o r i ( aml aroused an enthmiasm among dentiflc investigators in every civilised, ,„nlrv. r a r o _ ly equaled in the annals of history, it impossible in the time allotted to this , « , . . , o gointo detail. Suffice it to i y combined efforts of all „„„,. i m : . *"? * » tor public well perhaps any other >.., done * .the £p£, ZZ Z°«?, ductionm, i„. „„,,„ ,' *' pr h
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