Science and Expression 



nurtured among the classics, and one who 

 "has not failed, in the sweet and silent 

 studies of his youth, to drink deep at those 

 sacred fountains of all that is just and beauti- 

 ful in human language " will carry through 

 life the ear to hear and the heart to under- 

 stand the noble accents of the heavenly 

 choir of the immortals. 



And the language of our race carrying 

 down from the distant past the elegant re- 

 finement of Greek, the grave force of Latin, 

 and the terse strength of Saxon, has, by a 

 happy union, left us in possession of perhaps 

 the most glorious form of human expression 

 that has ever emerged upon the earth ; and 

 to study and preserve in the memory the 

 utterances of the great in this noble vehicle 

 of thought will refine the mind throughout 

 life and will console it in declining age. 



To peruse treatises on the precession of 

 the equinoxes, or on the motion of a particle 

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