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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 man- 
ful heads, and yet of childlike, hearts, who have 
