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that is light, and novel, and amusing, will be eagerly 

 caught hold of, and scientific trifles will take the 

 place of scientific inductions. 



(294.) But if this our effort fail to rouse the at- 

 tention of the present administration, " we must wait 

 for the revival of better feelings, and deplore our 

 national misfortune in the language of the wise man: 

 < I returned, and saw under the sun that there is 

 neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men 

 of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill.' " * 



* Quarterly Review, p. 342. 



