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in our most active life, the willing and obedient servant 

 of men. ' 



Railways were in their infancy, when the celebration 

 of 1843 took place, now they count by hundreds of thou- 

 sands of miles, they are even threading the routes of 

 ancient commerce. As they increase and multiply, so 

 the world is knit more closely and happily together, and 

 human brotherhood becomes more intimate and per- 

 fect. Has science stood still during all these years ? 



The answer comes back to us through the telegraph, 

 the telephone and the myriads of inventions that 

 depend on Magnetism and Electricity. It speaks also 

 in the wonders of Geology, Biology. Chemistry, As- 

 tronomy, Physics, Metaphysics, Historical research, 

 and in Medicine and Surgery. 



But would these results be ours if we had not had the 

 use of types and printing ? What revolutions they have 

 wrought in our speech and thoughts. If the world's 

 knowledge had depended on slow copyists, multitudes 

 would never have had one bright intellectual ray. 



Our founder, Franklin, was a printer, and perhaps 

 the most intelligent and skillful of his day. Look at 

 his old press as it stands now in one of our museums, 

 and compare it with one of those that to-day strike 

 off many thousands of copies in an hour, and you 

 can form some conception of what types and printing 

 are doing for the promotion of science and useful 

 knowledge. When the world was brought to this 

 city in 1876, to interchange the exhibition of its natural 

 and artificial productions, we had an instructive picture 

 of what the present civilized world is. History enables 

 us to penetrate in some degree the obscurity and im- 

 perfection of ancient times, but we could have no other 



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