CHAPTER VI. OLD CLOTHES.
CHAPTER VII. ORGANIC FILAMENTS.
CHAPTER VIII. NATURAL SUPERNATURALISM.
CHAPTER IX. CIRCUMSPECTIVE.
CHAPTER X. THE DANDIACAL BODY.
CHAPTER XI. TAILORS.
CHAPTER XII. FAREWELL.
APPENDIX.
BOOK I.
CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY.
Considering our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more fiercely than ever, but innumerable Rushlights, and Sulphur-matches, kindled thereat, are also glancing in every direction, so that not the smallest cranny or dog-hole in Nature or Art can remain unilluminated,—it might strike the reflective mind with some surprise that hitherto little or nothing of a fundamental character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes.
Our Theory of Gravitation is as good as perfect: Lagrange, it is well known, has proved that the Planetary System, on this scheme, will endure forever; Laplace, still more cunningly, even guesses that it could not have been made on any other scheme. Whereby, at least, our nautical Logbooks can be better kept; and
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