Download or read book The Law of Connecticut in Regard to the Pollution of Waters (Classic Reprint) written by Lewis Sperry and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Law of Connecticut in Regard to the Pollution of Waters The law does not lead but rather follows the progress or at least the changes of the human race. Precedents are not established nor statutes enacted to meet a condition until that condition presents itself. N o attempt is made to remedy an evil until the evil is known to exist and its ill effects have been experienced. Not until more than half of the nineteenth century had passed did the legislature of Connecticut begin to enact statutes in regard to the pollution of waters and it was not until about the same time that cases involving this subject began to be brought to our Supreme Court. The subject does not appear to be mentioned in an edition of Swift's Digest published in 1849. The reason for this is evident. It was not until that time that the cities of this state began to construct sewers upon an extensive plan, nor was it until then that the germ theory of diseases was announced and came to be widely accepted moreover, it was not until that time that the soils of the state began to show the need of artificial fertilization and a more scientific treatment then they had heretofore received. 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.