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as these who have attained to the discovery of those secrets 

 which have been of the greatest benefit to humanity. The ad- 

 monition is to all, that we are to seek first for truth and for 

 justice, and with this comes the promise that to those who thus 

 seek all other things shall be superadded. 



It is good and praiseworthy to labor to extract the metal from 

 the ore, and the liealing essence from the plant, to subdue the 

 powers of electricity and of steam to the service of man. To 

 those who attain these ends the world gives its substantial re- 

 wards, but far higher honors are instinctively rendered to 

 those who by their disinterested researches, undertaken without 

 hope of recompense, have revealed to us the great laws 

 which serve to guide the searchers in these fields of technical 

 science ; to those who have labored serenely, with the conscious- 

 ness that whatever of truth is made known by their studies will 

 be a lusting gain to humanity. " Thus," to repeat words used 

 on another occasion,* " it ever happens, in accordance with the 

 Divine order, that the worker must lose himself and his lower 

 aims in his work, and in so doing find his highest reward; for 

 the profit of his labor shall be, in the language of one of old, to 

 the glory of the Creator .-md to the relief of man's estate." 



* The relations of Chemistry to Pharmacy and Therapeutics, an 

 address before the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, by T. Starry 

 Hunt; Boston, 1875. 



