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History to Intellect, I propose to speak at this time. 

 And we trust it will appear that in this view alone, 

 it fully justifies the enthusiasm and the labor of nat- 

 uralists in all ages, and will justify their continued 

 labor, until every object in nature is searched out, 

 and the thought in it revealed. 



I need not stop here to prove that the intellect is 

 to man more than money that money can be only 

 a means of accomplishing good, while the cultivated 

 intellect is not only a means, but is itself an end, 

 a positive good; because, by its exercise, man rises 

 constantly to greater capacities for enjoyment by the 

 very act of enjoying. Its revenue is unalloyed with 

 the anxieties that wealth necessarily brings. By 

 the intellect men may rise so high, that neither 

 wealth nor station can add any thing to their influ- 

 ence, and poverty can take nothing from it, nor 

 lessen the respect in which they are held. We 

 never think of wealth in connection with Newton, 

 Cuvier, nor Humboldt. They are in a sphere so 

 high, that neither riches nor poverty are. known or 

 recognized there. Official station could not lend 

 them dignity. Nothing but immorality could shake 



