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THE
I N F L U E N C E
OF THE
B
LUE
R
AY
OF THE
S
UNLIGHT
AND OF THE
BLUE COLOUR OF THE SKY,
IN DEVELOPING ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE LIFE;IN ARRESTING DISEASE, AND IN RESTORING HEALTH IN ACUTE ANDCHRONIC DISORDERS TO HUMAN AND DOMESTIC ANIMALS.
AS ILLUSTRATED BY THE EXPERIMENTS OF
GEN. A.J. PLEASONTON, AND OTHERS,
Between the years 1861 and 1876.
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Addressed to the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
"Error may be tolerated, when reason is left free to combat it."––Thomas Jefferson.
"If this theory it true, it upsets all other theories."––Richmond Whig.
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––PHILADELPHIA:CLAXTON, REMSEN & HAFFELFINGER, PUBLISHERS.1877.
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1876,B
Y
GEN. AUGUSTUS J. PLEASONTON,in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D.C.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
PREFACE.
H
AVING
been much interested in the phenomena of the physics of the earth,the author, in offering to his readers a second edition of his work, "On theInfluence of the Blue Color of the Sky in Developing Animal and VegetableLife," may be indulged in his introduction into this preface of some views thathis observations have led him to entertain relative to the variations of tempera-ture, and changes of our seasons, which are in harmony with the subjects treatedby him in this work.The first edition of the following memoir was printed for distributionamong scientific and literary institutions, and among persons of culture, for thepurpose of attracting the attention of those for whom it was intended, to thesubjects of which it treats. It was hoped that its publication would inviteinvestigation into the nature, composition, and influences of those great forceswhich, in the poverty of our language, we call imponderables, that is to say, notto be weighed in the balance, and consequently never to be found wanting.This expectation is likely to be realized, if we may judge from the generalinterest that appears to be taken in the memoir, which has been manifested inthe numerous applications that have been made to the author, from variousparts of our country, for copies of it. The edition has now been distributed,yet so many persons who have applied for copies of the memoir are still withoutit, that it has been deemed advisable to issue another edition.If, by a course of study, and observation of the great forces of nature, asthey are exhibited, not in the laboratory, upon the minutest scale, but in thosegrand operations by which physical changes are at every moment developedbefore our eyes, we can succeed in penetrating the mysteries of their origin,of their evolution, of their application, and of their reciprocal conversions intoeach other, we shall become indeed wise in our generation, and mankind in thefuture will be able to rejoice in a development never yet reached in any pre-ceding age.
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