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its practice decline — its contributions to science, its 

 distinguished names, its prestige will remain. 



But new fields, fresh prairies must be sought out ; 

 other vistas will arise, and other springs of industry 

 and enterprise be set in motion ; nor will the stal- 

 wart arms, and vigorous minds, which now droop list- 

 lessly in our isle, want useful occupation, if eqiLal 

 and impartial justice be extended to all our material, 

 commercial, manufacturing, and national advantages. 



When will the pioneer come forth, to clear 

 away the rubbish that retards our national progress, 

 and forbids our ports to open their capacious bo- 

 soms, to the sails and paddles crowding from the 

 Atlantean wave ? See our great iron highways in- 

 viting the commerce, and the traffic of the western 

 world. See our tumultuous torrents pouring from 

 a hundred hills ; deep-rushing and impetuous rivers, 

 or tumbling over-falls ; mill-sites formed by nature, 

 not by art, inviting the wheel to the rivulet, not the 

 rivulet to the wheel : water-power to rival all the 

 tall chimneys of Birmingham or Manchester, and 

 turn the industrial machinery of the world. Here 

 are the paths of progress — these be the useful pro- 

 paganda. 



See the great telescope of Rosse, opening out the 

 milky- way, giving new worlds to our insatiate, bound- 

 less thoughts, and enlarging our conception and our 

 admiration of the Infinite : see air, earth, fire, water 

 put to new uses, and compelled to do our bidding ; 

 see winged hghtning bearing to and fro the messages 



