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feeling in all times, and in all countries ; we should never cease 

 to consider with admiration and gratitude, those models of excellence 

 which have been happily preserved, amongst the wrecks of cultivated 

 nations, to be our guides in the middle ages ; to be our shelter in the 

 storm, and our light in the darkness ; the beacons to guide us to 

 pure taste, to correct our wanderings, to bring us to nature and 

 truth. Let us regard them with all respect ; but let not our vene- 

 ration for them be exclusive : let us admire them, as we admire 

 the works of Art of Antiquity : the Apollo Belvidere, or the Yenus 

 de Medicis, were designed by their artists to be objects of adoration ; 

 let us wonder at them as statues, as models of perfection, but not 

 worship them as Deities, nor even make them our only Household 

 Gods. Greek and Roman literature will always maintain their 

 importance, always exert their influence ; but let us not neglect that 

 basis on which the greatness of modern times, and of our own 

 country, so peculiarly rests ; Experimental Philosophy and the 

 Experimental Arts. Let their merits be justly estimated, and set 

 forth with dignity and truth ; let not the countrymen of Bacon, of 

 Newton, and of Boyle, neglect those pure springs of knowledge from 

 which those great men drew such copious supplies, both for profit 

 and for glory : and let it not be forgotten, that Science has its moral 

 and intellectual, as well as its common uses : that its object is not 

 only to apply the different substances in Nature, for the advantages, 

 comfort, and benefit of man, but likewise to set forth that wonderful 

 and magnificent History of Wisdom and Intelligence, which is 

 written in legible characters, both in the Heavens and on the Earth. 



[H. D.] 



