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, NOT TO PERPETUATE A NAME 
WHICH MUST ENDURE WHILE THE PEACEFUL ARTS FLOURISH, 
BUT TO SHOW 
THAT MANKIND HAVE LEARNT TO HONOUR THOSE 
WHO DESERVE THEIR GRATITUDE, 
THE KING, 
HIS MINISTERS, AND MANY OF THE NOBLES 
AND COMMONERS OF THE REALM, 
RAISED THIS MONUMENT TO 
JAMES WATT, 
WHO DIRECTING THE FORCE OF AN ORIGINAL GENIUS 
EARLY EXERCISED IN PHILOSOPHIC RESEARCH, 
TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF 
THE STEAM-ENGINE, 
ENLARGED THE RESOURCES OF HIS COUNTRY, 
INCREASED THE POWER OF MAN, 
AND ROSE TO AN EMINENT PLACE 
AMONG THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS FOLLOWERS OF SCIENCE 
AND THE REAL BENEFACTORS OF THE WORLD. 
BORN AT GREENOCK, MDCCXXXVI, 
DIED AT HEATHFIELD, IN STAFFORDSHIRE, MDCCOXIX.* 
There are, actually counted, five large statues erected 
ina short time to the honour of Watt. Must we ac- 
knowledge it ?—this homage of filial piety, of public 
gratitude, has excited the ill-humour of some narrow 
minds, who, remaining stationary themselves, think they 
can arrest the march of centuries. If we believe them, 
some military men, some magistrates, some ministers (I 
must confess they have not dared to say all the ministers), 
would have a right to statues. I know not whether 
Homer, Aristotle, Descartes, Newton would appear to 
-these new Aristarchi deserving of a bust; assuredly they - 
would refuse the most unassuming medal to the Papins, 
the Vaucansons, the Watts, the Arkwrights, and other 
mechanics, unknown, perhaps, in a certain world, but 
* The French translation, for obvious reasons, is omitted.— Trans- 
lator. 
