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with transport every new light that can aid us to 

 comprehend the realm of universal law in which we 

 dwell. 



At this stage of the world's progress, when nations 

 are awakening to the right of the majority to rule, it 

 is essential both to social and civil prosperity, that 

 every one be so educated as to see that he is not at 

 liberty to hold to such opinions as his preoccupied 

 imagination may fancy, but that he has no right to 

 an opinion until he possesses facts, and draws conclu- 

 sions from evidence. Great truths have been smoth- 

 ered for ages after they were first announced, and 

 their discoverers persecuted instead of cherished for 

 their manly defence of them, because an unreasoning 

 populace were unable to separate truth from preju- 

 dice. If w 7 e would but learn the laws of the world's 

 progress in science and in civilization, we might be 

 saved from such self-defeat, and at the same time 

 both gain and give the pleasure of a grateful recog- 

 nition of the self-sacrificing spirit of the benefactors 

 of our race. 



In one of the Nashua papers of January, may be 

 found the following, from the pen of a Milford corre- 

 spondent : 



1 ' Last Tuesday evening Professor Sanborn of Dart- 

 mouth College favored us with the most sensible 

 lecture ever delivered in this town on the subject of 



