Pursuit of Knowledge in Science

CHAPTER III. From this day natural philosophy, and particularly chemistry,

in the most comprehensive sense of the term, became nearly my sole occupation. I read with ardour

those works, so full of genius and discrimination, which modern inquirers have written on

these subjects. I attended the lectures, and cultivated the acquaintance, of the men of science

of the university; and I found even in M. Krempe a great deal of sound sense and

real information, combined, it is true, with a repulsive physiognomy and

manners, but not on that account the less valuable. In M.

Waldman I found a true friend. His gentleness was never tinged by dogmatism; and his