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understood as those of the Pe'brine are now ; and that 

 the long-suffered massacre of our innocents will come to 

 an end. 



And thus mankind will have one more admonition that 

 " the people perish for lack of knowledge ; " and that the 

 alleviation of the miseries, and the promotion of the 

 welfare, of men must be sought, by those who will not 

 lose their pains, in that diligent, patient, loving study of 

 all the multitudinous aspects of Nature, the results of 

 which constitute exact knowledge, or Science. It is the 

 justification and the glory of this great meeting that it is 

 gathered together for no other object than the advance- 

 ment of the moiety of science which deals with those 

 phenomena of nature which we call physical. May its 

 endeavours be crowned with a full measure of success ! 



