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Britain upon another footing, it must begin with 
national institutions for instructing, and pecuniary 
endowments for maturing science; and, lastly, it 
might then proceed to reward those who attain pre- 
eminence. 
(292.) We thus bring our argument to the point 
from whence it began; namely, that a love for na- 
tural science must be imbibed at our universities ; 
where, to be taught effectually, it should be incor- 
porated as a necessary part of academic education. 
It is obvious, that tastes so acquired will have a 
powerful influence on the minds of those who may 
hereafter become legislators ; and that finally, a go- 
vernment composed of such legislators, will feel a 
personal interest, far stronger than that of political, 
in seeking out and rewarding, both with the pensions 
and honours of the state, those whose names are 
the brightest jewels in the diadem of the British 
empire. It will be only when the founts of science are 
opened to the sons of our nobility and aristocracy, at 
those venerable and noble institutions where they 
are educated ; it is only then that we can expect to 
see the philosophic spirit of the Boyles, the Caven- 
dishes, the Montagues, the Willoughbys, and the 
Howards of former and better times, again revive in 
their descendants, and once more occupy their proud 
station in the scientific annals of England. It will 
_ be only then, that the honours of the state will be 
thrown open to our philosophers and literary charac- 
ters. Then will the sage and the hero, as in other 
kingdoms, deliberate in the same cabinet ; they will 
be associated among* the privy councillors of the 
king, sit together in the united parliament, bear the 
