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to our arms the gods have given victory, and Kome is safe from all her 

 foes. My duty done, I cease to rule ; this sword I sheathe, and at your 

 feet lay all my power down. Instead of the purple toga, give me my 

 rustic tunic ; instead of that regal sceptre, give me my trusty spade ; 

 instead of that Eoman diadem, give me my Eoman Farm ! " 



Thus having spoken, he descended from his chariot; and, while 

 admiring awe held all voices silent, he passed quietly through the yield- 

 ing throng, re-crossed the Tiber, and stood once more upon his own 

 paternal acres, the " Eepresentative Man " of Eome's purest history and 

 proudest era — Eome's Great Eepublican Farmer ! 



More than two thousand years had passed, and another Commonwealth, 

 upon another continent, was in peril. To save from impending ruin, 

 another dictator was demanded ; another Oincinnatus was sought ; and 

 another Oincinnatus was found. Oalled from his farm by his country's 

 voice, he drew the sword but to obtain her deliverance. This done, he, 

 too, spurned the proffers of regal rank ; laid down the powers he had so 

 wisely used ; exchanged the gory fields of battle for the quiet fields of 

 agriculture: America's Great Eepublican Farmer! "Eepresentative 

 Men " of earth's loveliest and loftiest virtues, they have taught to Earth 

 the lesson that among the Tillers of the Soil are to be found the soundest 

 wisdom, the purest patriotism, the most stainless honor : — Eepresentative 

 Men, whose noble souls were anchored to the same fixed centre of Truth, 

 though the ashes of one slumber on the banks of the Tiber, and the 

 ashes of the other on the banks of the Potomac — Oincinnatus I 

 Washington ! 



THEORY AND OBSERVATION 



A striking example occurs to us, of the happy connexion of theory with 

 observation, in the prediction that there must exist a spot in the Ger- 

 man Ocean — the central point of area of rotation, produced by the meet- 

 ing and mutual action of two opposite tides — where no rise or fall of tide 

 whatever could occur ; a prediction actually verified by Capt. Howett in 

 1839; without any prior knoweledge that such a point had been supposed 

 to exist. This is one among the many triumphs of like kind achieved 

 by modern science. 



