10 



one word to you on the subject of Literature and the Fine 

 Arts. It is, however, my earnest desire to recommend them 

 equally to your cultivation. For the study of these, also, 

 we have in Liverpool great facilities, and the same stirring 

 inducements are offered to emulate our townsmen, Eoscoe, 

 Currie, and Shepherd, which the celebrity of Traill, Scoresby, 

 and Bostock, has held out to our lovers of science. The 

 fashion of the day may, perhaps, just for the present, set in 

 in favour of science. But science must and will generally 

 proceed hand in hand with literature and the fine arts. The 

 former may, it is true, be looked upon as the columns which 

 sustain the great temple of human knowledge ; but the latter 

 constitute the Corinthian capitals which embellish and 

 dignify the edifice, and, in reality, render it worth preserving." 



