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all the boasted and splendid productions 

 of the ancients ; or, indeed, any that 

 have dared to soar in regions which the 

 most powerful of human intellect alone 

 can reach in any age or nation our 

 own Sir Isaac Newton alone excepted. 



He may have been, is now, and will 

 be, followed, imitated, almost worshipped, 

 and his works illustrated and embellished 

 by others, his highly-gifted and talented 

 admirers but there he stands in the 

 pages of our history, the Jupiter Olym- 

 pus of a sublime conception, masterly 

 design, sound reasoning, and useful know- 

 ledge combining to form a practical pro- 

 gressive philosophy, that has earned for 

 him a title far more enduring than any 

 a sovereign can bestow. 



But I am wandering, as I did years 

 ago, among the ruins of that great 

 man's habitation. I turned from it with 

 thoughts on the infirmity of human na- 



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