On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences

On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences

Somerville, Mary

London: Murray, 1834

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1834

George Eliot to Maria Lewes, 23 June 1840. “I send you a little burst of feeling of my own, which would not be fit to send you if you were not in trouble, and even now it is not applicable fully to any but myself. I am ashamed to send you so many ill-clothed nothings. My excuse shall be a state of head that calls for four leeches before I can attack Mrs. Somerville's Connection of the Physical Sciences. I promise to write better English next time. I am thoroughly dissatisfied with my letter but it is dinner time and I must think of my Father's mind and body. My love to poor Mrs. Buchanan, when she is able to receive it. I will pray as well as my earth-bound spirit may for an abundant harvest of joy after this seed-time of tears, to you and her. The latter will last just as long as your All-wise and Tender Parent sees necessary -- it is but part of the dower to which you are entitled as one of His family. Blessed, is it not, to belong to that family in heaven and in earth which is as much superior to the rest of this "corner of the universe" as Pascal argues man to be compared with all matter. …” GEL 1: 56 

Somerville, Mary, On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://www.georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57165

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