Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE VOICE OF SCIENCE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE

Representative Prose and Verse

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ROBERT EMMONS ROGERS

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With an Introduction by Henry Greenleaf Pearson

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