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apparatus, and processes ; and to the investor of 

 money, by assisting him to judge what new technical 

 schemes are likely to succeed. 



As the domain of rational enjoyment afforded by 

 means of science gradually enlarges, that derivable 

 from less intellectual sources will probably be modi- 

 fied ; indeed this change is already progressing, and 

 is manifested in the alterations occurring in theologi- 

 cal views, and in the extensive adoption of scientific 

 entertainments by religious bodies. The recognition 

 of science by professors of religion is also shewn by 

 the already extensive use of railways on Sundays as 

 a means of conveyance to churches and chapels ; also- 

 by the publication by the Society for Promoting 

 Christian Knowledge, of Manuals of Electricity, 

 Astronomy, Botany, Chemistry, Crystallography, 

 Geology, Physiology, Zoology, Matter and Motion, 

 the Spectroscope, &c. 



Having shewn some of the chief modes in which 

 new scientific truth is a basis of mental and moral 

 progress, it is not necessary to say much respecting 

 the evil uses sometimes made of science, because 

 every good thing is liable to be abused by ignorant or 

 ill-intentioned persons. The abuses of scientific 

 knowledge do not arise from the true spirit of re- 

 search, viz., a desire for new knowledge on account of 

 its intrinsic goodness and value to man, but from an 

 absence of that sentiment. The Bremerhaven ex- 

 plosion, the assassination of the Czar, the uses of 

 photography to forge letters of credit, and of the 



