YI 

 SCIENCE AND CULTURE. 



[1880] 



Six years ago, as some of my present hearers 

 may remember, I had the privilege of addressing 

 a large assemblage of the inhabitants of this city, 

 ■\vho had gathered together to do honour to the 

 memory of their famous townsman, Joseph 

 I'riestley; * and, if any satisfaction attaches to 

 posthumous glory, we may hope tliat tlie names 

 of the burnt-out philosopher were then linally 

 appeased. 



No man, however, who is endowed with a fair 

 share of common sense, and not more than a fair 

 share of vanity, will identify either contemi^orary 

 or posthumous fame witli tlie highest good; and 

 Priestley's life leaves no doul^t that he, at any 

 rate, set a much higher value upon tlie advance- 

 ment of knowledge, and tlie promotion of that 



* See the first essay in this volume. 

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