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Science moves pari passu with capital. The first thousand dol- 

 lars, added one by one, was all that our princely merchant, John 

 Jacob Astor required to begin his ten millions with. 



Genius, here and there, like pearls or diamonds in the ocean 

 or earth, was rarely found anywhere until this period, for — 



" Full many a gem of purest ray sereno 

 The dark unfathomed cares of ocean bear." 



Gray said it best, you see. 



This great republic, where all are free to think, has already 

 shown such gems, and we look for a galaxy of them before 1900. 



Ladies and gentlemen — It is as plain as the sun at noon-day, 

 that we are bound by heavier obligations, than ever were laid 

 upon any people since the flood, to watch our schools and col- 

 leges. Cost what it may, we must drive out from among us all 

 ignorance. It must not be allowed any more than the yellow 

 fever or cholera, to remain in our land if we can prevent it ! 

 Despots alone fear knowledge. Republics love it as their foun 

 dation rock. So says every knowing man these thousands of 

 years. 



The American Institute has done as much as its power admit- 

 ted, to promote, according to its charter, " agriculture, com- 

 merce, manufactures and the arts," and its mode of instruction 

 has been to display every fall, to everybody, all the real evi 

 dences of progress among us. These silent things, to a good ob- 

 server, are all eloquent in their way, they often compel him to 

 say to himself if not to another, I wonder how he did it ! What 

 could have led him to such a complicated novel contrivance 1 

 Many machines being as it were automatic vital machinery. 



Among these automatons of wonderful powers, we cannot 

 choose to omit the printing presses made by a member of this In- 

 stitute, Mr. Hoe, whose working and immense results are a won- 

 der in England, as well as here, and her great paper the London 

 Times will be printed by it. One thing, we must be exceedingly 

 cautious in using this engine, which when it prints such immoral. 



