38 CLINTON'S &e. 



It now remains that we should perform faithfully, what we have under- 

 taken voluntarily. The harvest is great, and the labourers are 

 few. The cultivation of knowledge, like the cultivation of virtue, is its 

 own reward. 



".'Speak ye the pure delight, whose favour'd steps 



The lamp of science through the jealous maze 



Of nature guide?, when haply you reveal 



Her secret honours, whether in the sky, 



The beauteous laws of light, the central powers, 



That wheel the pensile planets round the year, 



Whether in wonders of the rolling deep, 



Or the rich fruits of all-sustaining earth, 



Or fine- adjusted springs of life and sense, 



Ye scan the counsels of their author's hand." 



PLKASUKES OF IMAGINATION, b. 2. 



History and observation justify the remark that while the movements 

 of conquest have been from the north to the south, and the course, of 

 the precious metals from the west to the east ; that the progress of the 

 ocean and of the atmosphere, of the arts and sciences, and of the civiliza- 

 tion of the human species, has been from the rising to the setting sun : 

 and, according to the uniform experience of mankind, we have every 

 reason to believe that our country will be the chosen seat, and favourite 

 abode, of learning and science. May this association be a humble instru- 

 ment in paving the way for this sublime result ; and may posterity describe 

 its origin, its progress, and its maturity, by adopting, with a small varia- 

 tion, the language of the roman bard : 



" Mobilitate viget, viresque acqnirit enndo r 

 Parva inetu primo; mox sese attollit in auras, 

 Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubila condit." 



lib. iv. 



It grew strong by exertion, and acquired strength in its progress : small 

 at first, through diffidence, it soon sprung up into the sky, spread over the 

 earth, and hid its towering head in the heavens. 



