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Scientia et potentia humana in idem coincidunt, quia ignoratio causæ destituit effectum. Natura enim non nisi parendo vincitur: et quod in contemplatione instar causæ est, id in operatione instar regulæ est.
Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect; for nature is only subdued by submission, and that, which in contemplative philosophy corresponds with the cause, in practical science becomes the rule.—Bacon, Aphorism III.
THE PUERING, BATING & DRENCHING OF SKINS
BY
JOSEPH TURNEY WOOD
DIRECTOR OF TURNEY BROTHERS, LIMITED, NOTTINGHAM; EXAMINER IN LEATHER TANNING, DRESSING OF SKINS, AND LEATHER DYEING TO THE CITY AND GUILDS OF LONDON INSTITUTE; MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LEATHER TRADES CHEMISTS, ETC.
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1912
DEDICATED TO SIR JOHN TURNEY THE VETERAN OF THE LIGHT LEATHER INDUSTRY IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT