VI 

 SCIENCE AND CULTURE 



[1880] 



Six years ago, as some of my present hearers may 

 remember, I had the privilege of addressing a 

 large assemblage of the inhabitants of this city, 

 who had gathered together to do honour to the 

 memory of their famous townsman, Joseph 

 Priestley ; l and, if any satisfaction attaches to 

 posthumous glory, we may hope that the manes 

 of the burnt-out philosopher were then finally 

 appeased. 



No man, however, who is endowed with a fair 

 share of common sense, and not more than a fail- 

 share of vanity, will identify either contemporary 

 or posthumous fame with the highest good ; and 

 Priestley's life leaves no doubt that he, at any 

 rate, set a much higher value upon the advance- 

 ment of knowledge, and the promotion of that 

 1 See the first essay in this volume. 



