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as time and devoted labor have long since come. There 

 are plenty of wealthy men and women ready to g-ive 

 money as soon as we can prove that it can be given safe- 

 ly, worthily and well. Now, here we have a school of 

 more than ten thousand pupils, confined to no one city, 

 no one State, no one denomination. We have a corps of 

 fifty volunteer instructors. We need no expensive build- 

 ings. And if we find that in order to meet the needs of 

 our maturing membership we need a fund of ten or 

 twenty or fifty thousand dollars, whose income shall be 

 applied to giving worthy young' men and women a chance 

 to work under competent instruction, I have faith to 

 believe that some man will be found deep enough in 

 pocket, and broad enough in heart, to endow the 

 Ag'assiz Association as he might a collegiate chair or a 

 private school- Let each chapter and each member be 

 like Diogenes, ever peering about with lig-hted lantern to 

 find this man. 



But we need not wait for that. There is enough 

 we can do unaided; and, indeed, I am inclined to think 

 that labor voluntarily expended by boys and girls in 

 building their own cabinets, and by girls in decorating* 

 and caring for their assembly-rooms, is the cause of the 

 truest satisfaction and enjoyment, and is also produc- 

 tive of the greatest interest in the weightier matters of 

 scientific study. You can see most clearly through a 

 microscope that you have worked and waited for. 



If the endowment ought to come, it will come in 

 due time: but in the meanwhile let each continue to 

 do his best where he happens to be. The way to help 

 the whole Association is to give your best attention to 

 your individual work. Let the little ones gather their 

 pebbles and their flowers. Let the elder look more close- 

 ly into the structure and the habits of bird, or beast. 



