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These men may be obtained, if sufficient encouragement is 

 offered as an inducement. They should be well paid. Scholars of 

 sufficient attainments to qualify them for such stations, do not hang 

 loosely upon society ; they must have fixed upon their professions 

 or business in life : and what they are called to do, must be from 

 the efforts of ripe minds ; not the experiments of youthful ones to 

 prepare them for usefulness. If we have been a by-word and a 

 reproach among nations for pitiful remuneration of intellectual 

 labours, this expedition will afford an excellent opportunity of 

 wiping it away. The stimulus of fame is not a sufficient motive 

 for a scientific man to leave his family and friends, and all the 

 charms and duties of social life, for years together ; but it must be 

 united to the recompense of pecuniary reward, to call forth all the 

 powers of an opulent mind. The price you pay will, in some 

 measure, show your appreciation of such pursuits. We have no 

 stars and ribands, no hereditary titles, to reward our men of genius 

 for adding to the knowledge or to the comfort of mankind, and to 

 the honour of the nation. We boast of our men of science, our 

 philosophers, and artists, when they have paid the last tribute to 

 envy by their death. When mouldering in their graves, they enjoy 

 a reputation, which envy and malice and detraction may hawk at 

 and tear, but cannot harm ! Let us be more just, and stamp the 

 value we set on science in a noble appreciation of it, and by the 

 price we are willing to pay. 



It has been justly remarked, that those who enlighten their 

 country by their talents, strengthen it by their philosophy, enrich 

 it by their science, and adorn it by their genius, are Atlases, who 

 support the name and dignity of their nation, and transmit it un- 

 impared to future generations. Their noblest part lives and is 

 active, when they are no more ; and their names and contributions 

 to knowledge, are legacies bequeathed to the whole world ! To 

 those who shall thus labour to enrich our country, if we would be 

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