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lias received freely; which comnuuiicates knowledge without hope of 

 reward, without jealousy and mean rivalry, to fellow-students and to the 

 world; which is content to delve and toil comparatively unknown, that from 

 its obscure and seemingly worthless results others may derive pleasure, and 

 even build up great fortunes, and change the very face of cities and lands, 

 by the practical use of some stray talisman which the poor student has 

 invented in his laboratory : this is the spirit which is abroad among our 

 scientific men, to a greater degree than it ever has been among any body of 

 men for many a century past, and might well be copied by those who 

 profess deeper purposes and a more exalted calling than the discovery of a 

 new zoophyte or the classification of a moorland crag. And it is these 

 qualities, however imperfectly they may be realized in any individual 

 instance, which make our scientific men, as a class, the wholesomest and 

 pleasantest of companions abroad, and at home the most blameless, simple, 

 and cheerful, in all domestic relations ; men for the most part of manful 

 heads, and yet of childlike hearts, who have turned to quiet study, in the 

 piping times of peace, an intellectual health and courage which might have 

 made them, in more fierce and troublous times, capable of doing good 

 service with very different instruments than the scalpel and the 

 microscope." 



