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parts, and unmixed with any other objefl:. , He then 

 began anew to retrace the pidure, to touch up the lef- 

 fer parts, and to finiQi the whole in as perfeft a man- 

 ner as the ftate of our knowledge at the time would 

 permit. Where materials were wanting, the pifture 

 there continued to remain imperfe£l. The wants were 

 thus rendered obvious ; and the means of fupplying 

 thefe, were pointed our with the moft careful difcrimi- 

 nation. The ftudent, whenever he looked back to the 

 fubject, perceived the defefts ; and his hopes being 

 awakened, he felt an irrefiftiblc impulfe to explore that 

 hitherto untrodden path, which had been pointed out 

 to him, and fill up the chafni which ftill re.nained. Thus 

 were the aclive faculties of the mind moll powerfully 

 excited ; and inftead of labouring himfelf to fupply de- 

 ficienc es, that far exceeded die power of any one man to 

 accomplilh, he fet thoufands at work to fulfil the tafk, 

 and put thera into a train of going on with it, when he 

 himfelf fliouM be gone to that country " from whofe 

 dread bourne no traveller returns." 



It was to thefe talents, and to this mode of applying 

 them, that Drclor Cullfn owed his celebrity as a profef- 

 for; and it was in this manner that he has peihapsdone 

 more towards the advancement ol fcience, than any other 

 man of his time, though many individuals might per- 

 haps be found, who were more deeply verfed in the par- 

 ticular departments he taught than he himfelf was. 

 Chcmiftry, which was before his time a molt difguil- 

 ing purfuit, was by him rendered a lludy fo pkafing, 

 fo eafy, and fo attractive, that it is now profecuted by 

 numbers as an agreeable reci'eation, who but for tlse 

 lights that were thrown upon it by CuUen and his pu- 

 pils, would never have thought of engaging in it at all; 

 though perhaps they never heard of Cullen's name, nor 

 have at this time the moft diflant idea that they owe 

 sny obligations to him. The fame thing may, no 

 dovibt, be faid of the other branches of fcience he taught, 

 though of thefe the writer cannot fpcak from his own 



