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attached to it. He had included all these objects in 

 one design, and had placed them under one roof. 



He was not yet fifty years old, and after the events 

 through which his energy had carried him he saw no 

 difficulty, and thought it would be easy to make his 

 most complicated Institution prove to the world how 

 scientific knowledge might be useful to the lower as 

 well as to the higher classes. He expected to gain 

 the support of the whole nation. He wished that his 

 Institution should be approved by all the world. 



The difficulties and dangers that arose as he worked 

 out his plan became only stimulants to his energy,' 

 and if engagements at Munich and attractions at 

 Paris had not interfered, he would not have allowed 

 his original Institution to fail from any want of support 

 or from any opposition to his designs. 



Already he had made enemies and met with diffi- 

 culties, and early in 1802 political necessity and 

 private interest led him abroad, and made him agree 

 to changes which affected the foundations of his Insti- 

 tution, and caused it to approach in some respects 

 nearer to its present form. Thus the year 1802 saw 

 the first great change in the management of the Royal 

 Institution. 



In the sixth number of the Journal of the Institu- 

 tion the lectures of Young, and in the seventh number 

 the lectures of Davy, which began on January 21, are 

 mentioned by Young thus : 



As the object of the Journals is to present to their readers 



discussions tending either to practical utility or to the 



lustrations of the principles of science, so particulars of 



