Joseph Priestley (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Joseph Priestley Joseph Priestley is probably one of the most interesting of the notable men of the eighteenth century. To his age he was perhaps most famous as a dauntless controversialist in politics and religion, he himself regarded the study of Christian Religion and Theology as his life-work, while to-day his chief title to fame rests on his scientific work. Joseph Priestley was born at Fieldhead, a hamlet included in the parish of Birstall, which lies about six miles south-west of Leeds, the district is now closely dotted with the manufacturing towns which give the West Riding of Yorkshire its wealth and fame and unfortunately also its grime and murk. Leeds, Halifax, Wakefield, Huddersfield, Bradford, are all within a comparatively short distance of Birstall. Neverthless in Priestley's day the district must have been a charming one, it is a gently undulating region, sufficiently far from the bleak moorlands of the Central Pennine Chain to be free from the grimness which so deeply influenced the lives and characters of the Bronte family, but yet sufficiently hilly to develop that sturdiness of character usually assumed to be lacking from the dwellers in flatter regions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.