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its teachers, how can it be expected that what is not 
found in individuals should be found in learned 
societies? or how can it be imagined, under these 
circumstances, that the rising school of students 
should appreciate the value of those researches 
which alone give dignity to the study of nature ? 
(241.) From individuals and societies let us 
turn to national encouragement ; that we may form 
some idea whether the governments of other nations 
regard science and its professors in the same light 
as they are viewed by that of Britain, and trouble 
themselves as little in the state of one as in the 
patronage of the other. And here we will not 
enter into those interesting details, brought forward 
with so much energy and feeling by the anonymous 
writer in the Quarterly Review, relative to the pa- 
tronage of science in the seventeenth century, not 
merely by the continental sovereigns of that age, 
but by the court and ministry of Britain; for we 
should, by condensing, diminish the force and con- 
clusiveness of the argument. A perusal of that 
statement will show, that among the distinguished 
philosophers who adorned that age, there is scarcely 
an individual who did not receive the most sub- 
stantial rewards for his scientific labours. Newton 
was appointed successively Warden and Master of 
the Mint by Charles Montague, afterwards Earl of 
Halifax, and in the subsequent reign of Queen 
Anne, ‘ the then undegraded honour of knighthood”’ 
was conferred upon him. Roemer in Denmark, He- 
velius and Huygens in France, Jacquin and Leibnitz 
in Germany, the family of the Bernouillis, the 
celebrated Pallas, and the illustrious Euler in 
