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INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSE OF TUB PLEASURES OF SCIENCE. 



uppetito. But it is unlike the low gratifications of sense in another respect : while those hurt the health, 

 debase the understanding, and corrupt the feelings, this elevates and refines our nature, teaching us to look 

 upon all earthly objects as insignificant, and below our notice, except the pursuit of knowledge and the 

 cultivation of virtue ; and giving a dignity and importance to the enjoyment of life, which the frivolous and 

 the grovelling cannot oven comprehend. 



Let us, then, conclude, that the Pleasures of Science go hand in hand with the solid benefits derived 

 from it j that they tend, unlike other gratifications, not only to make our lives more agreeable, but better ; 

 and that a rational being is bound by every motive of interest and of duty, to direct his mind towards 

 pursuits which are found to bo the sure path of Virtue as well as of Happiness. 



