$4 Dr. Barnes on the Affinity 
the mere dint of natural parts, is no exception 
to the rule. How much more might even he 
have done, if aflifted by a more extenfive know¬ 
ledge, and a more liberal education ! What, 
if to genius and application had been added, a 
larger field of obfervation, a more general ac¬ 
quaintance with the mechanical powers, and 
with what thofe powers have already done, in 
the various branches of Manufactures, and of 
Arts ! How much further might he have ad¬ 
vanced ! That human ingenuity is not exhaufi:- 
ed ; that machines are not yet carried to their 
higheft improvement, and that they ought to 
be encouraged to their very utmoft exertions, 
none here will queftion. 
Let us now apply thefe obfervations. I have 
ventured to chalk out the outlines of a plan, 
the foie objeCt and principle of which is, the 
improvement of our Manufactures , by the im¬ 
provement of thofe Arts, on which they depend. 
Thofe arts are, chemistry and mechanism. 
In an excellent paper, read to this fociety forme 
time ago, it was lamented, ‘ f that fo few of our 
dyers are chemifts, and of our chemifts dyers.” 
We may add. How few of our Mechanics under- 
ftand the principles of their own arts, and the 
difcoveries made in other collateral and kindred 
manufactures ? At this day, I am informed, 
not a fingle weaver in the Norwich trade under- 
ftands the ufe of a Fly-Shuttle. 
But 
