274 An Address on Archeology. 
theless a very readable and instructive one, simply because it was 
written with all the strong party feelings and prejudices of an 
English country gentleman in the reign of George the third. This 
consideration too meets the objection, that this kind of study 
indisposes men to the active duties of life; for how can that be 
said to impair energy, or to superinduce any mental or social 
infirmity, which requires for its successful cultivation all the lessons 
of experience, the keenest observation, the strictest reasoning, and 
the most impartial accuracy? Take as an example Dr. Arnold 
himself, whose mind was intrinsically archeological in its cast, and 
who than he has exercised in this country a more lasting and moral 
influence? I may cite more appropriate instances and nearer 
home. We do not find that the acquisitions in this science of Mr. 
Poulett Scrope have at all lessened the sense of the responsibility 
which attaches to him as a landowner and magistrate, or have 
detracted from his efficiency as a member of the legislature. I am 
sure that the painstaking, the diligence and assiduity in this 
department of my friend Mr. Jackson have been perfectly com- 
patible with the scrupulous fulfilment of his duties, as parish priest 
and adviser of his Diocesan. I repeat, therefore, that there is no 
valid ground for the supposition that the study of the past, if 
pursued under the direction of rational principles, is likely to be 
attended by any incapacitating results. Having striven to remove 
these misconceptions, I would now contract my remarks within a 
narrower sphere, and beg your forbearance, whilst I endeavour to 
point out how Archzology, viewed as an educational means, is 
adapted to further moral and intellectual advancement. Of course 
in speaking of it as an educational means, I do not refer to any 
degree in which it may become an appliance of rudimentary 
instruction, but only to its tendencies to elevate and improve. In 
an intellectual aspect, whatever mental discipline can be brought 
about by inductive habits, holds good of Archeology. Safe conclu- 
sions on this head can no more be deduced, if unsupported by a 
well ordered array of facts, than in geology or any other cognate 
science. Hasty assumptions, and superficial generalisations, are 
are alike alien from its proper spirit and fatal to its progress. It 
