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Ch. IV.] 



WERNER. 



69 



thing with his favourite science, and in his excursive lec- 

 tures, he pointed out all the economical uses of minerals, 

 and their application to medicine : the influence of the 



com 



man 



The 



vast sandy plains of Tartary and Africa, he would say, re- 

 tained their inhabitants in the shape of wandering shepherds ; 

 the granitic mountains and the low calcareous and alluvial 

 plains gave rise to diiferent manners, degrees of wealth, and 

 intelligence. The history even of languages, and the migra- 

 tions of tribes, had been determined by the direction of 



particular strata. 



The qualities of certain stones used in 



him 



different ages and nations ; and the physical geography of a 



m 



charm of his manner 



en- 



thusiasm in the minds of his pupils ; and many, who had 

 intended at first only to acquire a slight knowledge of 

 mineralogy, when they had once heard him, devoted them- 

 selves to it as the business of their lives. In a few years, a 



before unheard of in Europe, was 



mines 



men 



German 



came from t] 

 of geology.* 



Werner had a great antipathy to the m 



writing, and, with the exception of a valuable treatise on 



metalliferous 



memoir 



ment 



^ — — — - c-j — 



Although the natural modesty 

 r e. approaching even to timidity, 



most 



1m 



his doctrines. Their admiration of his genius, and the feel- 



him 



were not undeserved ; but the supreme authority usurped oy 

 him over the opinions of his contemporaries, was eventually 

 prejudicial to the progress of the science ; so much so, as 



* Cuvier, Eloge de "Werner. 



