History Today, February 1st, 2004
PRESIDENT THOMAS Jefferson of the United rates wrote to Joseph Priestley, clergyman and chemist, when the latter was seriously ill in 1801, 'Yours is one of the few lives precious to mankind, for the continuance of which every thinking man is solicitous.' Not everyone in America or Britain would have agreed with this sentiment. On the contrary, Priestley's radical views on religion and politics had made England too hot for him. A mob in Birmingham had destroyed his home, his books and his laboratory with all his apparatus ten years before and he had felt in danger ever afterwards. In 1794 he a...
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