154 General advantages of scientific knowledge. 



and actions throughout the Universe. Whilst also 

 music, painting, sculpture, poetry and the drama, 

 afford excitement and pleasure to his senses, feelings 

 and sentiments, and are largely personal ; science not 

 only constitutes the basis of those arts, but shews the 

 relations of them to Man and to the external Universe,, 

 and thus more largely cultivates the intellect and cor- 

 rects and refines the senses, feelings and sentiments. 



New scientific knowledge affords advantages to all 

 classes of men ; to the minister of religion, by supply- 

 ing him with new illustrations of Creative power, in 

 the greatness, smallness, and vast variety of nature ; 

 to the physician, by explaining to him more perfectly 

 the structure and phenomena of the human body, and 

 by providing him with new remedies ; to the states- 

 man and politician, by making known to him the 

 great and increasing relations of science to national 

 progress, by its influence upon wages, capital, the 

 employment of workmen, the art of war, the means of 

 communication with foreign countries, &c. ; to the 

 philanthropist, as an endless source of employment 

 for poor persons, by the development of new discover- 

 ies, inventions, and improvements in arts and manu- 

 factories ; to the military man, by affording him new 

 engines and materials for warfare and defence ; to the 

 inventor, by supplying him with new discoveries upon 

 which to found inventions ; to the merchant and man 

 of trade, by the influence of new products and 

 processes upon the prices of his commodities ; to the 

 manufacturer, as a means of improving his materials* 



