34 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences^ Arts^ and Letters. 



bury and Andover.Mass., 1634-1644, and of Wni. Holt, of New Haven, 

 Conn. 8vo. By Daniel S. Durrie. 8vo, pp. 367. 1864. 

 Bibliography of Wisconsin. By Daniel S. Durrie. See Hist. Magazine for 

 July, 1809. 



Siicli is a pretty full record, so far as made public, of the 

 labors wliicli had been performed b}^ and for AVisconsin in the 

 Sciences, in the Arts, and in Letters up to the j'ear 1870. If 

 it shows that in the Practical Arts— in the rough work of civ- 

 ilization — we had achieved marvelous results for a State of 

 but twenty-two years, it reveals, on the other hand, how little 

 has been accomplished in those higher fields of human activ- 

 ity, the scientific, literary and aesthetic, whose cultivation, if 

 more difficult and apparently less fruitful of immediate re- 

 sults, is nevertheless not only indispensable to them but also 

 essential to those high intellectual achievements which exalt 

 man as an individual and make of the otherwise half-civilized 

 community an enlightened and refined commonwealth. And, 

 in so far as this deficiency has been shown, to that same extent 

 has it been demonstrated that the welfare of the State would 

 be j)i'omoted by an efficient organization formed for the ex- 

 press purpose of suppljnng it. 



2. On behalf of Science, Literature and the Arts, the rea- 

 sons which influenced the founding of the Academy are briefly 

 stated. 



The sympathies and aspirations of a people should not be 

 limited to objects which refer to the State. Every communi- 

 ty is in duty bound to contribute something to the common 

 stock of liuman knowledge. Nay, more ; there is a sentiment 

 higher than even philanthropy, namely, fealty to truth inde- 

 pendent of all its relations. It can hardly be said, to-day, 

 when the rule of might is not yet ended, that a state or nation 

 is influential in proportion as it cherishes those higher senti- 

 ments and makes them the rule of its conduct. But it is cer- 

 tain that none can justly claim the respect of mankind from 

 whose policy they are excluded. 



