Scientific Education 



affects all matter similarly throughout the 

 universe, has always done so, and must 

 always do so, renders it quite uninteresting. 

 And those who spend their lives in the 

 dreary occupation of making calculations 

 which cannot err, estimating strains that 

 cannot vary, and determining future pheno- 

 mena which are certain and,, inevitable 



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become singularly dull individuals. For such 

 exercises of the mind pursued with deter- 

 mination render it averse from poetry, and all 

 the imaginative study of human affairs, pre- 

 clude it from appreciating all the loveliness of 

 life, leave it untouched by the sanguine 

 emotions, and quite indifferent to the glamour 

 of the arts, or to the divine gift of taste. 



Not that there may not emerge here and 

 there among men of letters one who by some 

 misfortune has lost his imagination and has 

 subsided into a mere man of maxims such as 

 was Polonius, whose trite observations were 



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